English
ghetto fabulous
From ghetto + fabulous.
A compound of ghetto + fabulous
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- ‘to speak’
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Latin for
Latin fābula ‘discourse, narrative’
Latin fābulōsus ‘celebrated in fable’
Middle English fabulous
English fabulous
The story
In the first sense perhaps influenced and popularized by rapper Mystikal's hip-hop song and album Ghetto Fabulous (1998).
Today it means
adj Wealthy, but of ghetto roots and ethic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ghetto fabulous