flabergast

English

Verb

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

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.

Further reading

• Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.
• “flabbergast”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.