flabergast

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A form of flabbergast — To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbflabergast (third-person singular simple present flabergasts, present participle flabergasting, simple past flabergasted, past participle flabergasted or flabergast)

present singular third person flabergasts · participle present flabergasting · past flabergasted · participle past flabergasted

  1. ScotlandarchaicArchaic spelling of flabbergast.
nounflabergast (plural flabergasts)

plural flabergasts

  1. ScotlandarchaicArchaic spelling of flabbergast.

    Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.

    1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, in Yankee Notions, volume 2, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, […], →OCLC, page 297
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