2. Verb. (third-person singular of flabbergast) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flabbergasts
1. flabbergast [v] - See also: flabbergast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flabbergasts
Literary usage of Flabbergasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare-characters; Chiefly Those Subordinate by Charles Cowden Clarke (1863)
"... her very first question flabbergasts him. If she had not led off, he would
have stood there till now :— " Now, Master Slender. " Slm. Now, good Mistress ..."
2. Another Book on the Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1915)
"... is saved from the blade of Ibsen's Master Builder only by the timely interference
of the elegant Van Bibber, who flabbergasts Solness with a mere look. ..."
3. The Letters of Richard Ford, 1797-1858 by Richard Ford (1905)
"Ford is certainly a most astonishing fellow; he quite flabbergasts me—handbooks,
reviews, and I hear that he has just been writing a ' Life of Velasquez' ..."
4. The Journey of Augustus Raymond Margary: From Shanghae to Bhamo, and Back to by Augustus Raymond Margary, Rutherford Alcock (1876)
"First of all there is my air bed which completely flabbergasts them, and then
there are fifty other wonders, from my marvellous tin-box to the knives and ..."
5. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1905)
"Balat is a paving stone, and balat, figuratively, is the blether that knocks
down, floors, flabbergasts. Let us travel still further. ..."
6. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1903)
"Balat is a paving stone, and balat, figuratively, is the blether that knocks
down, floors, flabbergasts. Let us travel still further. ..."
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