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flabergastation

flabergastation is the alternative form of flabbergastation.

Meaning of flabbergastation

Noun

flabbergastation (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
    • We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.1856, Punch, Vol. 31, The Punch Office, page 240
  2. (archaic, colloquial, humorous) The act of confounding or bewildering.

Origin of flabergastation

From flabbergast + -ation.

Questions about flabergastation

What is flabergastation the alternative form of?
Flabergastation is the alternative form of flabbergastation.

Words near flabergastation in the dictionary

  1. flabellinids
  2. flabellum
  3. flabellums
  4. flabels
  5. flabergast
  6. flabergastation
  7. flabergasted
  8. flabergasting
  9. flabergasts
  10. flabile
  11. flabrigast

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