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English
Verb
flabberghast (third-person singular simple present flabberghasts, present participle flabberghasting, simple past flabberghasted, past participle flabberghasted or flabberghast)
- Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
1887 January 29, “The ‘Emergency-Man’”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XCII, London: Published at the office, 85, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 54, column 1:Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, / May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
1967, The Pakistan Review, volume 15, Lahore: Ferozsons Ltd., →OCLC, page 7:The old VC flabberghasted at the possibility of three husbands for his niece; the shocked and even molested Vice-Principal knowing little to do, now that he was stripped of his clothes and appearing in those of the prisoner of war […]
1981, “Our Xmas Present: Up to $150 Worth of Free Imported Classical Recordings”, in Ovation: The Magazine for Classical Music Listeners, volume 2, New York, N.Y.: Ovation Magazine Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC:Our faithful customers never cease to flabberghast us.
Noun
flabberghast (plural flabberghasts)
- Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
Further reading
- “FLABERGAST” in [John Camden Hotten], A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, , 2nd revised edition, London: John Camden Hotten, , 1860, →OCLC, page 140: “FLABERGAST, or flabberghast, to astonish, or strike with wonder.”.