flabbergaster
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flabbergaster
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From flabbergast + -er.
noun flabbergasters
- A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock. Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
- A state of surprise or fear.
verb flabbergasters · flabbergastering · flabbergastered
- To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]
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title = {flabbergaster},
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