flabrigastとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

flabrigast (三人称単数 現在形 flabrigasts, 現在分詞 flabrigasting, 過去形および過去分詞形 flabrigasted)

1. (Scotland) To brag or boast.
2. (Scotland) Alternative form of flabbergast
   • 1878, James Brown Selkirk. Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry, Smith, Elder, & Co, page 78:

     He confesses to having loaded some of his compositions with technical tricks and difficulties on purpose to flabrigast some of his envious friends in Vienna.

参照

• “flabbergast, v.” in W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC; reproduced on The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, →OCLC.
• “FLABBERGAST, v.” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume II (D–G), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900, →OCLC, page 376, column 1.
• Jonathon Green, editor (2005) Cassell’s Dictionary of Slang, 2nd edition, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 511.