Crossword clues for flabbergast
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flabbergast \Flab"ber*gast\ (fl[a^]b"b[~e]r*g[a^]st), v. t. [Cf.
Flap, and Aghast.]
To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary
statements. [Jocular]
--Beaconsfield.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1772, flabbergasted, mentioned (with bored) in a magazine article that year as a new vogue word, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from some dialect (in 1823 flabbergast was noted as a Sussex word), perhaps ultimately an arbitrary formation alluding to flabby or flapper and aghast. "Like many other popular words expressing intensity of action, ... not separable into definite elements or traceable to a definite origin" [Century Dictionary]. Related: Flabbergasted; flabbergasting; flabbergastation.
Wiktionary
alt. (context uncountable English) Overwhelming surprise, confusion or shock.{{reference-book n. (context uncountable English) Overwhelming surprise, confusion or shock.{{reference-book vb. (context transitive English) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to stun, confound or amaze, especially with ludicrous affect.{{reference-book
WordNet
Usage examples of "flabbergast".
But whatever the explanation, he had strictly censored himself from that night on, treating her in an avuncular manner that had amazed himself, and would certainly have flabbergasted any of his cronies or former mistresses had they seen him.
The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.
Apparently Inez was too flabbergasted to do anything more than goggle at the figures on the porch of the sorority house.
He would have admitted to no one, apart from Spiff perhaps, that he was flabbergasted.
Lieutenant Cheng Shiao of the Royal Constabulary, did a commendable job of not acting flabbergasted or starstruck when the expected First Philander stepped through the fax gate with the quite unexpected Queen of Sol in tow, plus a pair of dainty metal bodyguards, plus an extra Philander who was quite famous in his own right.
I was flabbergasted, as much by the notion of decommercializing medicine as by the specific nostrum involved.
Three or four hours later, however, when she yanked the beetle off its thread and popped it into her mouth like a bonbon, I was flabbergasted.
Peter Easley, who had been just as flabbergasted as everyone else on the bridge, absorbed that news before Ray Scott or John Beverly did.
Grenejon looked flabbergasted, the duchess surprised, Moxtell amazed, and all the others merely gawked.
Robinton was flabbergasted as he took the score from his mother's hand.
Of course, he had been so flabbergasted to find a little dragon butting him, that he had had to be urged by T'gellan, the Weyrleader, and the Weyrling master to accept the lmpression.
The more he thought about his whole trip the more flabbergasted he became.
But when the flabbergasted deckhand began hurriedly unlashing and flinging off the boat's tarpaulin cover, Fitz sauntered away, smiling.
The Pete Jenkins flabbergasted this august audience as much as it had done any crowd of yokels, and, after the intrusive drunk became Maurice LeVie, he and Paprika became a faultless dazzle of blue and orange on the trapezes.
Banat and the other Slovaks were flabbergasted when even they received gifts: a fine astrakhan fur hat apiece.