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Flabbergasted vs Flabbergaster - What's the difference?

flabbergasted | flabbergaster |

As verbs the difference between flabbergasted and flabbergaster

is that flabbergasted is past tense of flabbergast while flabbergaster is to perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten{{reference-book.

As an adjective flabbergasted

is appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book.

As a noun flabbergaster is

a person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.

flabbergasted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book
    • , last = Green , first = Jonathan , year = 2005 , title = Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&dq=flabbergast&source=gbs_navlinks_ss , pages = 511 , publisher = Sterling Publishing Company }}
    He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
  • * 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert . Houghton-Mifflin.
    • Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
  • * 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home . Gospel Light. page 57.
    • From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.
  • (euphemistic) Damned.{{reference-book
    • , last = Green , first = Jonathan , year = 2005 , title = Cassell's Dictionary of Slang , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&dq=flabbergast&source=gbs_navlinks_ss , pages = 511 , publisher = Sterling Publishing Company }}

    Alternative forms

    * flabagasted * flambergasted

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    flabbergaster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock
    • Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
  • * 1917. Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell. Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 61 . page 143.
    • This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.
  • * 2005. Jonathan Carroll. Outside the Dog Museum . Macmillan. page 197.
  • A state of surprise or fear.{{reference-book
    • , editor = Joseph Wright (Ed.) , year = 1900 , title = The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=90MOAQAAMAAJ&dq=flabbergasting&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 376 , publisher = H. Frowde }}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten{{reference-book
    • , editor = Joseph Wright (Ed.) , year = 1900 , title = The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=90MOAQAAMAAJ&dq=flabbergasting&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 376 , publisher = H. Frowde }}
    But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention , that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
  • * 1888. Robert Smith Surtees. Hillingdon Hall, or, The cockney squire: a tale of country life . John C. Nimmo. page 155.

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