flappergast

English edit

Verb edit

flappergast (third-person singular simple present flappergasts, present participle flappergasting, simple past and past participle flappergasted)

Archaic spelling of flabbergast.

Further reading edit

Joseph Wright, editor (1900), “FLABBERGAST”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use during the Last Two Hundred Years: Founded on the Publications of the English Dialect Society and on a Large Amount of Material Never before Printed, volumes II (D–G), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.