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Flabberghasted vs Flabbergasted - What's the difference?

flabberghasted | flabbergasted |

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)

  • flabberghast

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) {{reference-book
  • , last = Hotten , first = John Camden , year = 1860 , title = A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words , url = http://books.google.com/books?id=Kfo3AQAAIAAJ&dq=flabberghast&source=gbs_navlinks_s , pages = 140 }}
  • * 1887. Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman. Punch: Volumes 92-93 . Punch Publications. page 54.
  • Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
  • * 1967. The Pakistan review: Volume 15 . Ferozsons Ltd. page 7.
  • 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
  • * 1981. Ovation: Volume 2, Issues 1-12 . Ovation Magazine Associates.
  • Our faithful customers never cease to flabberghast us.

    References

    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

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (flabbergast)
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