A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock
Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
1917. Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell. Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 61. page 143.This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.
2005. Jonathan Carroll. Outside the Dog Museum. Macmillan. page 197.
A state of surprise or fear.
Verb
(archaic) To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten
But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention , that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
1888. Robert Smith Surtees. Hillingdon Hall, or, The cockney squire: a tale of country life. John C. Nimmo. page 155.
