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vvvexation ([personal profile] vvvexation) wrote2004-06-21 01:09 am
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Linguistic musing

Could the state of being flabbergasted be termed "flabbergasm"?
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[identity profile] olego.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry:

To put (a person) in such confusion that he does not for the moment know what to do or say; to astonish utterly, to confound.

Hence flabbergastation, the action of flabbergasting; the state of being flabbergasted.

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I suppose flabbergastation is almost as good.

[identity profile] olego.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
*giggle* I liked your suggestion. It was cute. :-)

[identity profile] cyan-blue.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I like that... though it also could mean one instance of being really flabbergasted.

[identity profile] vvvexation.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, yeah. "I had a huge flabbergasm the other day."

[identity profile] deyo.livejournal.com 2004-06-21 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Moreover, if that were true, could one be "orgasted"?
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[personal profile] tshuma 2004-06-21 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
See, that was my question, too. Except that since something can be orgiastic, can one be "orgiasted"?
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