flabbergasted

flabbergasted

English

WOTD – 30 October 2006

Alternative forms

• flabagasted
• flambergasted

Etymology

Past tense of flabbergast.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡɑːstəd/, /ˈflæbə(ˌ)ɡæstəd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflæbɚˌɡæstəd/

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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.

2. (euphemistic, rare) Damned.[2]

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:astonished

Translations

appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted

Finnish: äimistynyt, kauhistunut (fi), tuohtunut French: sidéré (fr)

euphemistic: damned

Finnish: hattuuntunut (fi)

Verb

flabbergasted

1. simple past tense 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

Anagrams

• gabberflasted