Flabagasts vs Flabaghasts - What's the difference?
flabagasts | flabaghasts |
(flabagast)
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, editor = William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith (Eds.)
, year = 1897
, title = The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
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To shock, upset, confound or surprise
* 1834. Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke. The life of Andrew Jackson . T. K. Greenbank. page 193.
* 1897. F. Anstey. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A . D. Appleton and Company. page 168.
* 1989. T'best Ekeagwu. The Taste of Ordinary Life: The Legacy for Every Negro Youth''. ''Social Science .
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* 2005. Jonathan Green.
As verbs the difference between flabagasts and flabaghasts
is that flabagasts is (flabagast) while flabaghasts is (flabaghast).flabagasts
English
Verb
(head)flabagast
English
Alternative forms
* flabaghast * flabbergast * flabagastedVerb
- They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.
- 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!
- 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.
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- The people who keep heaping praises on him flabagast me even more.
Alternative forms
* flabaghastReferences
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.