what do you think of when you hear the word flabbergasted?

Answer 1

OMG, unbelievable, shocked, speechless, not convinced it is happening, surreal

Answer 2

It is a rather funny word.. I use it a lot.. when I hear it.. or use it.. I think of being perplexed... "I can't believe my eyes"...... astonished...."Are you kidding?"

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 3

In shock, at loss for words

Answer 4

I think of someone who has been completely "bowled over" as evidenced by the look of total shock and amazement on his/her face and the frozen quality of their reaction - as if something has stopped them dead in their tracks.

Answer 5

I think of how I feel when I read poorly composed, ignorant, and/or hate-filled questions on this website (not yours!!!). Sometimes I find myself wondering if there is really a thinking person in there somewhere - and how that person would feel if their mother read what they'd written.

Answer 6

Bubbleguts... LOL!

(Just for the record, I do know the true meaning of the word).

Answer 7

So much surprize that whoever is flabbergasted is bloated with it (surprise). ha,ha,ha,



Peace.

Answer 8

I think of someone in awe about something and being speechless.

Answer 9

at a loss for words-bewildered and in shock

Answer 10

jelly