Flabbergastation

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted. colloquial, uncountable

    "We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth."

  2. 2
    The act of confounding or bewildering. archaic, colloquial, humorous, uncountable

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confusionflabbergastflabbergastmentshocksurprise

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"We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth."

Etymology

From flabbergast + -ation.

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