Flabaghast vs Flabagast - What's the difference?
Flabaghast is an alternative form of flabagast. As verbs the difference between flabaghast and flabagast is that flabaghast is while flabagast is {{reference-book. As a noun flabagast is (archaic).
flabaghast
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flabagast
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Verb
{{reference-book
, editor = William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin Eli Smith (Eds.)
, year = 1897
, title = The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=XAJPAAAAYAAJ&dq=The+Century+Dictionary+and+Cyclopedia:+Dictionary&source=gbs_navlinks_s
, pages = 2245
, publisher = Century
}}
To shock, upset, confound or surprise
* 1834. Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke. The life of Andrew Jackson . T. K. Greenbank. page 193.
- They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex’d and disappinted.
* 1897. F. Anstey. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A . D. Appleton and Company. page 168.
- At this I was rendered completely flabaghast —for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother – wit to refrain from blurting it out!
* 1989. T’best Ekeagwu. The Taste of Ordinary Life: The Legacy for Every Negro Youth”. ”Social Science .
- For I had talent: the promise and the drive to acquire advanced knowledge and skill to enundate or flabagast my superiors and excell in my profession.
* 2004. ” What Are Bush’s Strengths “. ClutchFans.com.
- The people who keep heaping praises on him flabagast me even more.
References
* 2005. Jonathan Green. Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang . Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.
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