flappergast

English

Verb

flappergast (third-person singular simple present flappergasts, present participle flappergasting, simple past and past participle flappergasted)

1. Archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Further reading

• Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use during the Last Two Hundred Years: Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never before Printed, volumes II (D–G), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.