Definition of Flabbergasted

1. Adjective. As if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise. "Was thunderstruck by the news of his promotion"


Definition of Flabbergasted

1. Adjective. Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.(reference-book ¹

2. Adjective. (euphemistic) Damned.(reference-book ¹

3. Verb. (past of flabbergast) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Flabbergasted

1. flabbergast [v] - See also: flabbergast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flabbergasted

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Literary usage of Flabbergasted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of French Slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"Ça lui en a bouché un coin, he was flabbergasted, struck all of a heap, crushed, he was choked off. Ça m'en bouche une surface ! ..."

2. The Gossip: Or, Scraps of Manuscripts and Facetiæ, Laconica Et Lyrica, Being (1849)
"... he awoke after a. three hours' snooze, and found himself all flabbergasted, all alone, more resembling a rejected Jerry Sneak than a giant refreshed. ..."

3. Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, Or Bon-ton by John Badcock (1823)
"His colleagues were flabbergasted when they heard of ... In ring-affairs, a man may be flabbergasted by a flush hit ..."

4. Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton by John Badcock (1823)
"His colleagues were flabbergasted when they heard of ... In ring-affairs, a man may be flabbergasted by a flush hit between the eyes, whether with the ..."

5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"The magistrate before whom the case was brought seems to have been completely flabbergasted and paralysed with astonishment.—Evening News. ..."

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