flabergast

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flabergast (third-person singular simple present flabergasts, present participle flabergasting, simple past flabergasted, past participle flabergasted or flabergast)

  1. (Scotland) Archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Noun

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flabergast (plural flabergasts)

  1. (Scotland) Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
    • 1852 October, “Adventures of Tom Honeycomb—No. I”, in Yankee Notions, volume 2, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Published by T. W. Strong, [], →OCLC, page 297:
      Her foibles were flattery, fine feeling, and flabergast; and if not old enough to be his mother, sufficiently so to be a young aunt.

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