flabbergastment

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English

Etymology

From flabbergast +‎ -ment.

Noun

flabbergastment (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of flabbergast (overwhelming shock or surprise)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:surprise
    • 1963, National Geographic, Vol. 122, National Geographic Society:
      It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
    • 1988, John Barth, Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice, Anchor Press, page 69:
      I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
    • 2002, Timothy Zahn, Angelmass, Macmillan, page 175:
      She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.

References

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