flabbergastation
nounEtymology
From flabbergast + -ation.
Definitions
Bewildered shock or surprise
Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
- We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.
- I can recall my flabbergastation when in the house of a Jutlander of the middle class I heard him holding fluent converse with his children in some heathen dialect...
The act of confounding or bewildering.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for flabbergastation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA