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flabbergaster
noun 2verb 1
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2ADJ.
real, terrestrial
FLABBERGASTER + NOUN
funeral, world
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noun
1
A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.
Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.
2
A state of surprise or fear.
verb
1
To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten
Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]
But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
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Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
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This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.
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Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution,
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But I've got an invention in my 'ead — at all events, the notion of an invention, that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!
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