The Word Association Thread

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flabagast

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Wild guess = Flabbergast

EtymologyOrigin uncertain, Hotten says it is from Old English[1]; Whitney and Smith suggests flabby or flap (strike) + gast (astonish)[2]; The Imperial Dictionary connects it with flabber (related to flap, to strike) + the root of aghast, and notes that flabagast may have been the root (to strike aghast)[3]; first documented as slang in 1772; [4] Cassell gives it as dialectical from Suffolk, from flap or flabby + aghast, possibly related to Scottish flabrigast (to boast) or flabrigastit (worn out with exertion)[5]; Smith relates it to flab (to quake) or flap (to make a flap over something) + Middle English agasten (to terrify), and relates it to aghast, ghastly and ghost[6]

I cant help it I was a Schoolteacher in the last Century :lol2:

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[Raistlin]

Wild guess = Flabbergast

EtymologyOrigin uncertain, Hotten says it is from Old English[1]; Whitney and Smith suggests flabby or flap (strike) + gast (astonish)[2]; The Imperial Dictionary connects it with flabber (related to flap, to strike) + the root of aghast, and notes that flabagast may have been the root (to strike aghast)[3]; first documented as slang in 1772; [4] Cassell gives it as dialectical from Suffolk, from flap or flabby + aghast, possibly related to Scottish flabrigast (to boast) or flabrigastit (worn out with exertion)[5]; Smith relates it to flab (to quake) or flap (to make a flap over something) + Middle English agasten (to terrify), and relates it to aghast, ghastly and ghost[6]

I cant help it I was a Schoolteacher in the last Century :lol2:

Astound

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

1. Alternative form of flabbergast.^[1]
2. To shock, upset, confound or surprise [quotations ▼]
   • 1834. Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke. The life of Andrew Jackson. T. K. Greenbank. page 193.They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.
   • 1897. F. Anstey. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. D. Appleton and Company. page 168.At this I was rendered completely flabaghast for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother - wit to refrain from blurting it out!
   • 1989. T'best Ekeagwu. The Taste of Ordinary Life: The Legacy for Every Negro Youth. Social Science.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.
   • 2004. "What Are Bush's Strengths". ClutchFans.com.The people who keep heaping praises on him flabagast me even more.

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[Bizarra]

Wild guess = Flabbergast

EtymologyOrigin uncertain, Hotten says it is from Old English[1]; Whitney and Smith suggests flabby or flap (strike) + gast (astonish)[2]; The Imperial Dictionary connects it with flabber (related to flap, to strike) + the root of aghast, and notes that flabagast may have been the root (to strike aghast)[3]; first documented as slang in 1772; [4] Cassell gives it as dialectical from Suffolk, from flap or flabby + aghast, possibly related to Scottish flabrigast (to boast) or flabrigastit (worn out with exertion)[5]; Smith relates it to flab (to quake) or flap (to make a flap over something) + Middle English agasten (to terrify), and relates it to aghast, ghastly and ghost[6]

I cant help it I was a Schoolteacher in the last Century :lol2:

Astound

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

1. Alternative form of flabbergast.^[1]
2. To shock, upset, confound or surprise [quotations ▼]
   • 1834. Seba Smith, Charles Augustus Davis, John Clarke. The life of Andrew Jackson. T. K. Greenbank. page 193.They flabagast good manners and good morals, and only show that one of the parties is vex'd and disappinted.
   • 1897. F. Anstey. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. D. Appleton and Company. page 168.At this I was rendered completely flabaghast —for, although the allegation was undeniably correct, I had confidently hoped that my friend Ram was unaware of the fact, or would at least have the ordinary mother - wit to refrain from blurting it out!
   • 1989. T'best Ekeagwu. The Taste of Ordinary Life: The Legacy for Every Negro Youth. Social Science.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.
   • 2004. "What Are Bush's Strengths". ClutchFans.com.The people who keep heaping praises on him flabagast me even more.

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I was only wrong once, & that was the time I thought I wasn't right :lol2:

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