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English
Verb
flabergast (third-person singular simple present flabergasts, present participle flabergasting, simple past flabergasted, past participle flabergasted or flabergast)
- (Scotland) Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
Noun
flabergast (plural flabergasts)
- (Scotland) Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, in Yankee Notions, volume 2, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, , →OCLC, page 297:Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.
Further reading
- Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: , volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, , publisher to the English Dialect Society, ; New York, N.Y.: G P Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.
- “flabbergast”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.