flabrigast

English edit

Etymology edit

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Verb edit

flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)

(Scotland) To brag or boast.
(Scotland) Alternative form of flabbergast
- 1878, James Brown Selkirk, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:
  He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.

References edit

“flabbergast, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST, v.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes II (D–G), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.
Jonathon Green, editor (2005), Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 511.