flabrigast

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verb

To brag or boast.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbflabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)

present singular third person flabrigasts · participle present flabrigasting · participle past flabrigasted · past flabrigasted

  1. ScotlandTo brag or boast.
  2. ScotlandalternativeAlternative form of flabbergast.

    He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.

    1878, James Brown Selkirk, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78

Origin

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