flabrigast
English
Etymology
See flabbergast.
Verb
flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)
- (Scotland) To brag or boast.
- (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.
- 1878, James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:
References
- “flabbergast, v.” in W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, OCLC 847228655; reproduced on The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714.
- “FLABBERGAST, v.” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900, 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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