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单词 flabrigast
释义

flabrigast

English

Etymology

See flabbergast.

Verb

flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)

  1. (Scotland) To brag or boast.
  2. (Scotland) Alternative form of flabbergast
    • 1878, James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:
      He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.

References

  • flabbergast, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
  • 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 81937840, page 376, column 1.
  • Jonathon Green, editor (2005) Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 511.
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