flabbergast
f la ber gast
- v overcome with amazement
- Among merged words now in common use are flabbergast (flabby aghast) and chortle (chuckle snort).
- But her statements flabbergast a number of her former colleagues at the University of Washington.
- It is intended to flabbergast, enlighten and amuse visitors to this year's world's fairs in San Francisco and New York City.