Flabbergasts vs Flabberghasts - What's the difference?
flabbergasts | flabberghasts |
(flabberghast)
(archaic) {{reference-book
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, first = John Camden
, year = 1860
, title = A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words
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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.
As verbs the difference between flabbergasts and flabberghasts
is that flabbergasts is (flabbergast) while flabberghasts is (flabberghast).As a noun flabbergasts
is .flabberghasts
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.