flabbergasted
a uniquestruck
him unique word
etymology
Oxford English Dictionary
First mentioned in 1772 as a new piece of fashionable slang; possibly of
dialectal origin; Moor 1823 records it as a Suffolk word, and Jamieson,
Supplement 1825, has flabrigast, ‘to gasconade’ [to boast extravagantly],
flabrigastit ‘worn out with exertion’, as used in Perthshire. The formation is
unknown; it is plausibly conjectured that the word is an arbitrary invention
suggested by flabby adj. or flap n. and aghast adj.
oohbrother
picked up for his personal perusal gasconade flabrigastit which
reading it fixated on tit an coud recall on too many occasions to count he was
wore out by exertion happy memories mammaries
it wasnt a word he used frequently popped up in the
prior piece
then pausing to read a few
pages in Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in US History
by Linford D Fisher he read . . .
searching for more such archival instances in the United States, the Carribean,
and the United Kingdom, I was flabbergasted
by
how much evidence for Native enslavement exists in bits and pieces if we are
willing to look for it. . . . Native
enslavement was everywhere . . .
he was looking forward to reading dismally more
flabbergasted
things come
in threes
he was anxiouslyanticipating its next appearance
hed shit if someone said rather than him
reading it
odds on would read it Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel
were products of our upbringing
1048, Tuesday,
6 10. 26
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