flabbergaster

Etymology

From flabbergast + -er.

flabbergaster means A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock.“Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.”
A state of surprise or fear.

verb

To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten“Jack, among his friends, had raised money sufficient to fee an Old Bailey counsel, who, by blustering and cross-examination, succeeded in so flabbergastering the simple witnesses for the prosecution, that the prisoner was in a fair way of being acquitted; […]”