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Flabaghast vs Flabagast - What's the difference?

flabaghast | flabagast | Alternative forms |

Flabagast is a alternative form of flabaghast.



As verbs the difference between flabaghast and flabagast

is that flabaghast is alternative form of flabagast while flabagast is alternative form of flabbergast{{reference-book.

As a noun flabagast is

alternative form of flabbergast.

flabaghast

English

Verb

(en verb)

    • flabagast

    English

    Alternative forms

    * flabaghast * flabbergast * flabagasted

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic)

    • Verb

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    • , editor = William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith (Eds.) , year = 1897 , title = The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAJPAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+Century+Dictionary+and+Cyclopedia:+Dictionary&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 2245 , publisher = Century }}
  • 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.

    Alternative forms

    * flabaghast

    References

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