English

Alternative forms

• flabaghast
• flabbergast
• flabagasted

Noun

flabagast ‎(plural flabagasts)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast

Verb

flabagast ‎(third-person singular simple present flabagasts, present participle flabagasting, simple past flabagasted, past participle flabaghast)

1. Alternative form of flabbergast^[1]
2. To shock, upset, confound or surprise
   • 1834. Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke. The life of Andrew Jackson. T. K. Greenbank. page 193.

     They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.

   • 1897. F. Anstey. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. D. Appleton and Company. page 168.

     At this I was rendered completely flabaghast —for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother - wit to refrain from blurting it out!

   • 1989. T'best Ekeagwu. The Taste of Ordinary Life: The Legacy for Every Negro Youth. Social Science.

     For I had talent: the promise and the drive to acquire advanced knowledge and skill to enundate or flabagast my superiors and excell in my profession.

   • 2004. "What Are Bush's Strengths". ClutchFans.com.

     The people who keep heaping praises on him flabagast me even more.

References

1. ↑ William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith (Eds.), editor (1897) The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary, Century, page 2245

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