Flabbergasting vs Flabbergaster - What's the difference?
flabbergasting | flabbergaster |
A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock
* 1917. Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell. Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 61 . page 143.
* 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
}}
(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
}}
* 1888. Robert Smith Surtees. Hillingdon Hall, or, The cockney squire: a tale of country life . John C. Nimmo. page 155.
As verbs the difference between flabbergasting and flabbergaster
is that flabbergasting is while flabbergaster is (archaic) to perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten{{reference-book.As a noun flabbergaster is
a person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.flabbergaster
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
- 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.
Verb
(en verb)- 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!
