Flabberghasted vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?
flabberghasted | flabbergasted |
(flabberghast)
(archaic) {{reference-book
, last = Hotten
, first = John Camden
, year = 1860
, title = A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words
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, pages = 140
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* 1887. Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman. Punch: Volumes 92-93 . Punch Publications. page 54.
* 1967. The Pakistan review: Volume 15 . Ferozsons Ltd. page 7.
* 1981. Ovation: Volume 2, Issues 1-12 . Ovation Magazine Associates.
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
}}
* 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert . Houghton-Mifflin.
* 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home . Gospel Light. page 57.
(euphemistic) Damned.{{reference-book
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, 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
}}
(flabbergast)
As verbs the difference between flabberghasted and flabbergasted
is that flabberghasted is past tense of flabberghast while flabbergasted is past tense of flabbergast.As an adjective flabbergasted is
appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.{{reference-book.flabberghasted
English
Verb
(head)flabberghast
English
Verb
(en verb)- Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
- The old VC flabberghast- ed at the possiblity of three husbands for his niece; the shocked and even molested Vice-Principal knowing little to do, now that he was stripped of his clothes and appearing in those of the prisoner of war
- Our faithful customers never cease to flabberghast us.
References
flabbergasted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.
- Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.
- From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.