Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 (of 7)

COMPILED AND EDITED BY JOHN S. FARMER and W. E. HENLEY.
VOL. III.—Fla. to Hyps. PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. MDCCCXCIII.
1772. Annual Register , ‘On New Words.’ Now we are flabbergasted and bored from morning to night.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf , etc., p. 79. His colleagues were flabbergasted when they heard of Castlereagh’s sudden death.
1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends (‘Brothers of Birchington’). He was quite flabbergasted to see the amount.
1841. Punch , vol. I., p. 261. We rather just imagine they will be not a little puzzled and flabbergasted to discover the meaning or wit of some of those elegant phrases.
1864. Derby Day , p. 67. You’re sort of flabbergasted. It’s taken all the wind out of you like, and you feel like an old screw a blowing up Highgate Hill.
1889. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette , 18 Jan. Poor Clarke was completely flabbergasted.
1891. National Observer , 1 Aug. In no other sport is the laudator temporis acti so completely flabbergasted as here.
Flabberdegaz , subs. (theatrical).—Words interpolated to dissemble a lapse of memory; gag ( q.v. ). Also, imperfect utterance or bad acting.
Flag , subs. (old).—1. A groat, or fourpenny piece. Also Flagg, and Flagge. For synonyms, see Joey.
1567. Harman, Caveat (1814), p. 65. Roge . But a flagge, a wyn, and a make. (But a groat, a penny, and a half-penny.)