Where does “flabbergasted” come from?
Flabbergasted comes from English flabbergast, ultimately from English flap with the suffix -y, tracing back through Middle French -ie and Latin -ia to the Latin adjectival suffix -ivus.
flabbergasted (English): Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted;...
Definitions
- Appalled, annoyed, exhausted or disgusted;...
Ancestry of “flabbergasted”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flabbergast | To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze,... |
| 2 | English | flabby | Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or... |
| 3 | English | flappy | that flaps |
| 4 | English | Y | A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y; A... |
| 5 | English | yuri | A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or... |
| 6 | Japanese | 百合 | lily |
| 7 | Japanese | 連用形 | an inflectional category: the continuative or... |
| 8 | Japanese | 見る | to see, to watch, to observe, to look at... |
| 9 | Japanese | 夢 | a dream; a vision; leaving reality to the state... |
| 10 | Old Japanese | 夢 | a dream |
| 11 | Japanese | 目 | an order in biology: smaller than a class, bigger... |
| 12 | Middle Chinese | 目 | — |