English

Adjective

flabbergasted ‎(comparative more flabbergasted, superlative most flabbergasted)

1. Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted.^[1]

   He was flabbergasted at how much weight he had gained.

   • 1952. Agnes Morley Cleaveland. Satan's Paradise: from Lucien Maxwell to Fred Lambert. Houghton-Mifflin.

     Maxwell made a lunge at his flabbergasted guest, who ducked just in time to escape the great hands reaching for him.

   • 2008. Dutch Sheets. Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home. Gospel Light. page 57.

     From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.

2. (euphemistic) Damned.^[2]

Alternative forms

• flabagasted
• flambergasted

Synonyms

See Wikisaurus:astonished

Verb

flabbergasted

1. simple past tense and past participle of flabbergast

References

1. ↑ Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Sterling Publishing Company, page 511
2. ↑ Green, Jonathan (2005) Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Sterling Publishing Company, page 511