flabrigast

English

Etymology

See flabbergast.

Verb

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.

References

• “flabbergast, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• 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.
• Jonathon Green, editor (2005), Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 511.