flabagast

flabagast (third-person singular simple present flabagasts, present participle flabagasting, simple past flabagasted, past participle flabagasted or flabagast)

1. Archaic spelling of flabbergast.
   • 1834, Jack Downing [pseudonym; Seba Smith], chapter XXV, in The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by T. K. Greenbank, →OCLC, page 183:

     They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.^[sic]

     The author was known to write in American vernacular for purposes of humor. As a result, the spelling in this work is idiosyncratic.

   • 1989, T’best Ekeagwu, The Taste of Ordinary Life: (The Legacy for Every Negro Youth), Nigeria: T’best Ekeagwu, →OCLC, page 79:

     For I had talent: the promise and the drive to acquire advanced knowledge and skill to enundate or flabagast my superiors and excell in my profession.

flabagast (plural flabagasts)

1. Archaic spelling of flabbergast.

• “flabbergast”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Jonathon Green (2005) “flabbergast”, in Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, →ISBN, page 511