English

Noun

flabbergastment ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative form of flabbergast (Overwhelming shock or surprise):^[1]
   • 1963. National Geographic, Vol. 122. National Geographic Society.

     It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.

   • 1988. John Barth. Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice. Anchor Press. page 69.

     I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.

   • 2002. Timothy Zahn. Angelmass. Macmillan. page 175.

     She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.

Synonyms

See Wikisaurus:surprise

Related terms

• flabbergast

References

1. ↑ Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Sterling Publishing Company, page 511