Citations:flabbergast

Verb

 * 1)  To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner.
 * 2) * 1844. Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Making of America Project. The Living Age, Vol. 3. Littell, Son & Company. page 383.
 * Almost simultaneously with the good town of St. Mungo, Bonnie Dundee and her stirring neighbors set themselves to intersect their district with railroads —linking together Dundee and Newtyle—Dundee, Arbroath, and Forfar: and near the most remote of Rome's battle-fields, scitheless cars roll, rattling louder than ever the scithed chariots of Galgacus, drawn by steeds lifeless though instinct with motion, which by their puffing and snorting would flabbergast the best of his shelties, could they return to earth.
 * 1) * 1863. Philip Gengembre Hubert. The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11. Making of America Project. page 13
 * "Ef you 'd heard me flabbergast the parson!" he used to say, with a jealous anxiety to keep Christ out of the visible Church, to shut his eyes to the true purity in it, to the fact that the Physician was in His hospital.
 * 1) * 1867. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Cranford. B. Tauchnitz. page 248.
 * "It's that you've taken me all on a sudden, and I didn't think for to get married so soon — and such quick work does flabbergast a man
 * 1) * 1886. The Twentieth Century, Vol. 20. The Nineteenth Century and After. page 534.
 * He is a Mark Tapley among artisans, coming out strongest under circumstances that would simply flabbergast workmen who have allowed themselves to become blindly obedient to, and helplessly dependent upon, automatic appliances.
 * 1) * 1895. Scientific American. page 51.
 * This universal use of wood rims will undoubtedly amaze and possibly flabbergast John Bull and his followers.
 * 1) * 1920. H L Mencken. A Book of Burlesques. A.A. Knopf. page 205.
 * Judge: An officer appointed to mislead, restrain, hynotize, cajole, seduce, browbeat, flabbergast and bamboozle a jury in such a manner that it will forget all the facts and give its decision to the best lawyer.
 * 1) * 1929. Proceedings: Vol. 55 United States Naval Institute.
 * HL Mencken, in a particularly savage attack on the military, says that the art of the soldier calls for the least professional competency, that the simplest problems of his ancient business flabbergast him.
 * 1) * 1939. LIFE, Vol. 7, No. 4. July 24, 1939. page 66.
 * Warner Brothers reasoned that if she could impress Rawson, Ann Sheridan would certainly flabbergast the ordinary public and the effort to turn her into the American Oomph Girl got under way.
 * 1) * 1946. Philippine Author. Leopoldo Y. Yabes (editor). Philippine Short Stories, 1941-1955: 1941-1949: Part 1. page 226.
 * We do any number of things that must annoy and flabbergast other people and we do them as if it were our duty to annoy and flabbergast others.
 * 1) * 1969. Gabriel Ruhumbika. Village in Uhuru, Vol. 5. Longman's. page 40.
 * Unfortunately the Standard VIII Territorial Examination found it its business to flabbergast him.
 * 1) * 1999. Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Marian Schwartz. Cape of Storms. New Directions Publishing. page 35.
 * Answers like that are very Russian and flabbergast the French — but they get a big kick out of them all the same. What flabbergasts us are the streets of our shame, and we are silent.
 * 1) * 2005. George Weigel. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. HarperCollins. page 123.
 * Father Karol Wojtyła stopped his pacing, stood at the center of the platform, and proceeded to flabbergast everyone in the room, especially Romuald Waldera,
 * 1) * 1999. Nina Nikolaevna Berberova, Marian Schwartz. Cape of Storms. New Directions Publishing. page 35.
 * Answers like that are very Russian and flabbergast the French — but they get a big kick out of them all the same. What flabbergasts us are the streets of our shame, and we are silent.
 * 1) * 2005. George Weigel. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II. HarperCollins. page 123.
 * Father Karol Wojtyła stopped his pacing, stood at the center of the platform, and proceeded to flabbergast everyone in the room, especially Romuald Waldera,

Noun

 * 1)  Overwhelming confusion, shock, or surprise.
 * 2) * 1977. Richard Sale. The White Buffalo. Bantam Books. page 184.
 * Charlie Zane's voice had a tremor as he shook his head in flabbergast.
 * 1) * 1978. Iceberg Slim. Doom Fox. Grove Press. page 135.
 * Joe's mouth drops open in flabbergast when he eye-sweeps to relocate Felix, who has vanished.
 * 1) * 2005. Kevin Peake. The Nevels Girls. iUniverse. page 53.
 * She stood there flatfooted, her mouth hung open with flabbergast, reacting to the fact that Adonis was black
 * 1) * 2010. Gregory Spencer. Awakening the Quieter Virtues. InterVarsity Press. page 127.
 * But we don't have to stay in a flabbergast-deprived state.
 * But we don't have to stay in a flabbergast-deprived state.