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flabbergaster

flabbergaster noun: a person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.

Noun

flabbergaster (plural flabbergasters)

  1. A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.
    • Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.1917, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 61, page 143
    • This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.2005, Jonathan Carroll, Outside the Dog Museum, Macmillan, page 197
  2. A state of surprise or fear.

Verb

flabbergaster (third-person singular simple present flabbergasters, present participle flabbergastering, simple past and past participle flabbergastered)

  1. (archaic) To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten
    • Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]1853, John Yonge Akerman, Wiltshire Tales, page 131
    • But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!1888, Robert Smith Surtees, Hillingdon Hall, or, The cockney squire: a tale of country life, John C. Nimmo, page 155

Forms of flabbergaster

Noun
pluralflabbergasters
Verb
third-person singular presentflabbergasters
present participleflabbergastering
past participleflabbergastered
pastflabbergastered

Origin of flabbergaster

From flabbergast + -er.

Questions about flabbergaster

What does flabbergaster mean?
Flabbergaster means a person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.
What part of speech is flabbergaster?
Flabbergaster can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of flabbergaster?
The plural of flabbergaster is flabbergasters.

Words near flabbergaster in the dictionary

  1. flabbergast
  2. flabbergastation
  3. flabbergasted
  4. flabbergastedly
  5. flabbergastedness
  6. flabbergaster
  7. flabbergastered
  8. flabbergastering
  9. flabbergasters
  10. flabbergasting
  11. flabbergastingly

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