flabagast

flabagast

English

Verb

flabagast (third-person singular simple present flabagasts, present participle flabagasting, simple past flabagasted, past participle flabagasted or flabagast)

1. Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
   • 1834, Jack Downing [pseudonym; Seba Smith], chapter XXV, in The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by T. K. Greenbank, OCLC 3392356, page 183:

     They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.^[sic]

     The author was known to write in American vernacular for purposes of humor. As a result, the spelling in this work is idiosyncratic.

   • 1989, T’best Ekeagwu, The Taste of Ordinary Life: (The Legacy for Every Negro Youth), Nigeria: T’best Ekeagwu, OCLC 843403069, page 79:

     For I had talent: the promise and the drive to acquire advanced knowledge and skill to enundate or flabagast my superiors and excell in my profession.

Noun

flabagast (plural flabagasts)

1. Archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Further reading

• flabbergast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• Jonathon Green (2005), “flabbergast”, in Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, →ISBN, page 511