Splendiferous
Pronunciation
- IPA: /splɛnˈdɪfərəs/
Origin
From Medieval Latin splendorifer (""), from Latin splendor + fero ("to bear"), reintroduced humourously into English c. 1837.
Full definition of splendiferous
Adjective
splendiferous
- beautiful, splendid
- c. 1460, George Ashby, "Dicta & opiniones diversorum philosophorum", 149, in George Ashby's Poems, edited by Mary Bateson, 1899.Who that is wele cherisshed with a king And is with hym grete & splendiferous.
- 1837, Robert Montgomery Bird, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky‎, Oh ! you splendiferous creatur'! you anngeliferous anngel! here am I, Ralph Stackpole the Screamer
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Chapter 14 "Oxen of the Sun"You move a motion? Steve boy, you’re going it some. More bluggy drunkables? Will immensely splendiferous stander permit one stooder of most extreme poverty and one largesize grandacious thirst to terminate one expensive inaugurated libation?
- 2004, Neal Stephenson, The Confusion, p. 178...he was trying to convince the Spaniards on the Viceroy's brig that they really ought to be interested in certain splendiferous goods that he, Mr. Foot, the owner and captain of this galleot, had of late brought out of the Orient--particularly, carpets.