flabrigast
English
Verb
flabrigast (third-person singular simple present flabrigasts, present participle flabrigasting, simple past and past participle flabrigasted)
- (Scotland) To boast or brag
- 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.
- 1878, James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and aesthetics of modern poetry. Smith, Elder, & Co. page 78.
- Alternative form of flabbergast[1]
Derived terms
- flabbergast (possible derivation)
References
- ↑ Joseph Wright (Ed.), editor (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect, H. Frowde, page 376
- 2005. Jonathan Green. Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company. page 511.
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