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Vainglorious Vicissitudes
The Vertiginous Void of Vacuous Verbosity
Linguistic musing
Linguistic musing
Jun
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21st
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2004
01:09 am
vvvexation
Could the state of being flabbergasted be termed "flabbergasm"?
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Date:
2004-06-21 08:47 am (UTC)
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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.
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2004-06-21 08:49 am (UTC)
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Date:
2004-06-21 08:51 am (UTC)
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OED.
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Date:
2004-06-21 08:55 am (UTC)
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Well, I suppose flabbergastation is
almost
as good.
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Date:
2004-06-21 08:56 am (UTC)
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*giggle* I liked your suggestion. It was cute. :-)
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Date: 2004-06-21 08:47 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2004-06-21 08:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-21 08:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-21 08:55 am (UTC)no subject
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