pantois
French
Etymology
From Old French pantaisier/pantoisier, from Vulgar Latin pantasiare. Cognate with Old Occitan pantaizar/pantaissar/pantaiar, Sicilian pantasciari, Neapolitan pantasiari, Catalan pantaixar.
Adjective
pantois (feminine pantoise, masculine plural pantois, feminine plural pantoises)
- gobsmacked, stunned, flabbergasted
Further reading
- “pantois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.