English

Verb

flabrigast ‎(third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)

1. (Scotland) To boast or brag
   • 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.

2. Alternative form of flabbergast^[1]

Derived terms

• flabbergast (possible derivation)

References

1. ↑ Joseph Wright (Ed.), editor (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect, H. Frowde, page 376

• 2005. Jonathan Green. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.