fabulous = 'given to creatively fashions and entertaining public behavior'

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 14 16:31:45 UTC 2014


Isn't this from at least a generation ago? Or at least last century?

DanG


On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> More or less. Shd. be OED 5c:
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> Johnny Weir on CNN: "While I am over the top and fabulous, and the end of
> the day I'm a normal person."
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