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flabbergasted

[flab-er-gast] Origin

flab·ber·gast

[flab-er-gast]
verb (used with object)
to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.

Origin:
1765–75; variant of flabagast (perhaps flabb(y) + aghast)

flab·ber·gast·er, noun


amaze, astonish, stagger, nonplus, confound; perplex, confuse, mystify.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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flabbergasted (ˈflæbəˌɡɑːstɪd)
 
adj
informal overcome with astonishment; amazed; astounded

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Word Origin & History

flabbergasted
1772, mentioned (with bored) in a magazine article as a new vogue word, perhaps from some dialect (in 1823 flabbergast was noted as a Sussex word), likely an arbitrary formation from flabby or flapper and aghast.
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