单词 | gobsmacked |
释义 | gobsmackedadj. slang (originally and chiefly British). Chiefly predicative. Flabbergasted, astounded; speechless or incoherent with amazement. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > [adjective] > and stunned > and speechless bekimedc1225 akimeda1250 gobsmacked1935 gob-struck1985 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). < adj.1935 |
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