Terms vs Flabrigast - What's the difference?
terms | flabrigast |
(Scottish) To boast or brag
* 1878. James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and aesthetics of modern poetry . Smith, Elder, & Co. page 78.
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* 2005. Jonathan Green.
As a noun terms
is .As a verb flabrigast is
(scottish) to boast or brag.flabrigast
English
Verb
(en verb)- He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.
Derived terms
* flabbergast (possible derivation)References
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.