What's a flabber and how can it be gasted?

Answer 1

The FLABBER is a little known Roman term for a tiny fat sphyncter in your rectum.
Eating copious quantities of boiled cabbage will produce a chemical reaction in the gut that produces a toxic GAS.
Should you have a husband called Edward, otherwise known to friends and family as TED, I would urge you not eat the aforementioned cabbage as FLABBER will GAS TED.

Answer 2

Rolling On Floor Laughing

That's Flabber-Gasted

Answer 3

It is a little-known fact that a flabber was actually a small, furry animal that resembled a skunk without the stripe. A person who had been gasted by a flabber would often stand stunned for as long as ten seconds, and require a hard shove to be woken from the spell. Sadly, flabbers went extinct around 1784, largely due to the influx of hungry rat terriers (and oversize house cats) from European colonist ships.

Flabbers rarely were gasted themselves.

Answer 4

A flabber is not anything. Being flabbergasted is a figure of speach. When a person is flabbergasted it means that they are suprised or astonished.

I got the following from http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-fla1.htm


FLABBERGASTED

To be surprised or astonished.

The British comedian Frankie Howerd used to say in mock astonishment: “I’m flabbergasted—never has my flabber been so gasted!”. That’s about as good an explanation for the origin of this word as you’re likely to get. It turns up first in print in 1772, in an article on new words in the Annual Register. The writer couples two fashionable terms: “Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night”. (Bored—being wearied by something tedious—had appeared only a few years earlier.) Presumably some unsung genius had put together flabber and aghast to make one word.

The source of the first part is obscure. It might be linked to flabby, suggesting that somebody is so astonished that they shake like a jelly. It can’t be connected with flapper, in the sense of a person who fusses or panics, as some have suggested, as that sense only emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. But flabbergasted could have been an existing dialect word, as one early nineteenth-century writer claimed to have found it in Suffolk dialect and another—in the form flabrigast— in Perthshire. Further than this, nobody can go with any certainty.

Answer 5

Flabber

Answer 6

Flabbergasted is not a reference to something known as a flabber that is in some way gasted. The term flabbergast is historical slang, originating among sailors from Saxony. Flabbergast was the term used for when a sail would go slack due to a rapid perpendicular shift in wind direction, or a complete cessation of wind altogether. A ship that was becalmed and adrift would be said to be flabbergasted, and thus unable to move. In colloquial usage, the term has come to mean the state when a person is so overcome with confusion or indecision that they are unable to form a coherent statement or logical series of deductions about some event or topic. In much the same way as a ship would be rendered immobile from being flabbergasted, so too would a person be rendered unable to process information if he or she were flabbergasted.

Answer 7

I have no flabber to be gasted I'm afraid. It's far too long a word to say - I just prefer 'shocked' I have also been shocked many times in both sense of the word!

Answer 8

The flabber is that roll of flub that hangs over some peoples waste line and if their pants are to tight they can definitely be gasted.

Answer 9

A brain. Can be gasted with a difficult question!

Answer 10

Hang on a minute. Who's that up there?

Ok, nothing. I thought I saw a flying fish or something.

I think that the others have given you most of what you need. I would just like to add that often, when flabbergasted myself, it is often followed by a short period of discombobulation, the two things being quite linked.

Because they are such nice words, I'm always happy whenever either one of them manifests itself upon me.