• Flabberghast

    Full definition of flabberghast

    Verb

    1. (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast
      • 1887. Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman. Punch: Volumes 92-93. Punch Publications. page 54.Skates that are not quite a fit, my dear Smith, May flabberghast even a chap of your pith.
      • 1967. The Pakistan review: Volume 15. Ferozsons Ltd. page 7.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
      • 1981. Ovation: Volume 2, Issues 1-12. Ovation Magazine Associates.Our faithful customers never cease to flabberghast us.
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