Flabbergastment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”) uncountable

    "It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes."

Synonyms

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amazementastonishmentawebewildermentconfusionflabbergast

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"It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes."

Etymology

From flabbergast + -ment.

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