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单词 gobsmacked
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gobsmackedadj.

Brit. /ˈɡɒbsmakt/, U.S. /ˈɡɑbˌsmækt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gob n.2, smacked adj. at smack v.2 Additions.
Etymology: < gob n.2 + smacked adj. at smack v.2 Additions. Compare later gobsmack v.
slang (originally and chiefly British).
Chiefly predicative. Flabbergasted, astounded; speechless or incoherent with amazement.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > and stunned > and speechless
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1935 Bee-keepers' Rec. Dec. 175/2 When he landed back Martha wad be fare gob smacked at the yarns he wad tell 'er about Yorkshire clod-hoppers.
1956 ‘J. Reynolds’ Woman of Bangkok 46 I'm so amazed that only the Malderbury dialect can express my condition: I'm ‘properly gob-smacked’.
1980 R. Hattersley in Listener 16 Oct. 506/1 It was his dazzling display of simultaneous social and intellectual sophistication that left me, in the patois of the place whence I came, ‘gob-smacked’.
1998 Spin Nov. 48/3 ‘He said, “I like to take new talent on the road with me—call my manager!”’ says a gobsmacked Greenwald.
2015 Irish Independent (Nexis) 3 Aug. 11 I'm gobsmacked at how generous people have already been in sponsoring me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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