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flabbergastment

noun

Etymology

From flabbergast + -ment.

Definitions

  1. Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)

    • It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
    • I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
    • She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.

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