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Flabbergasted


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English[edit]

WOTD – 30 October 2006

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Past tense of flabbergast.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːstəd/, /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡæstəd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/
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Adjective[edit]

flabbergasted (comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)

  1. Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.[1]
    He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
    • 1952, Agnes Morley Cleaveland., Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert, Houghton-Mifflin:
      Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
    • 2008, Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home, Gospel Light, page 57:
      From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
  2. (euphemistic, rare) Damned.[2]

Synonyms[edit]

See Thesaurus:astonished

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

flabbergasted

  1. simple past and past participle of flabbergast

References[edit]

  1. ^ Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang‎[1], Sterling Publishing Company, page 511
  2. ^ Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang‎[2], Sterling Publishing Company, page 511

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