flabbergasted

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Etymology

Past tense of flabbergast.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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.
    • 2014 August 16, BBC News, Why have tailgate parties not spread to the UK?:
      On his first encounter with tailgating in 2006, he was flabbergasted at the way rival fans mixed peaceably together at the parties. A Chicago Bears fan, he was warmly welcomed into a group of Arizona Cardinals fans and fed. "I was shocked and slightly worried. I thought they were going to poison me. It was just so odd."
  2. (euphemistic, rare) Damned.[2]

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:astonished

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Verb

flabbergasted

  1. simple past and past participle of flabbergast

References

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

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