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