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In the preface to The Hunting of the Snark, Carroll defines 'frumious'

Take the two words 'fuming' and 'furious'. Make up your mind that you will say both words, but leave it unsettled which you will say first. Now open your mouth and speak. If your thoughts incline ever so little towards 'fuming', you will say 'fuming-furious'; if they turn, by even a hair's breadth, towards 'furious', you will say 'furious-fuming'; but if you have the rarest of gifts, a perfectly balanced mind, you will say 'fruminous'.

In Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky, it is the Bandersnatch which is described as 'frumious'.

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