flabbergaster

flabbergaster
1. noun
a) 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.

b) A state of surprise or fear.

This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.

2. verb
To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten

But Ive got an invention in my ead — at all events, the notion of an invention , that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!


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  • flabbergast — flabbergaster, n. /flab euhr gast /, v.t. to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound. [1765 75; var. of flabagast (perh. FLABB(Y) + AGHAST)] Syn. amaze, astonish, stagger, nonplus, confound; perplex, confuse, mystify. * * * …   Universalium

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