flabrigast

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Etymology

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See flabbergast.

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Verb

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flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)

  1. (Scotland) To brag or boast.
  2. (Scotland) Alternative form of flabbergast
    • 1878, James Brown Selkirk, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:
      He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.

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