Astonishment vs Gloppen - What's the difference?
astonishment | gloppen |
amazement, great surprise
An amazing thing or phenomenon.
* 1964:
To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast
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To terrify; astonish; surprise.
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As a noun astonishment
is amazement, great surprise.As a verb gloppen is
to be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast.astonishment
English
Noun
- Everything he had seen so far--the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself--had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be anymore astonishments left.
gloppen
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage="O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened ,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified. }}
citation, genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780743283632 , page=59 , passage=A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen'''''. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. '''''Gloppen ." }}
