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Flabbergaster

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    A state of surprise or fear.
Verb
  1. 1
    To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten archaic

    "Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From flabbergast + -er.

Etymology 2

From flabbergast + -er.

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