flabbergastment
English
Etymology
flabbergast + -ment
Noun
flabbergastment (uncountable)
- Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)[1]
- 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
- Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Sterling Publishing Company, page 511