Slang and its analogues past and present, volume 3 [of 7]

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Original Title Page.
Slang and its Analogues Past
and Present.
A Dictionary, Historical and
Comparative, of the Heterodox
Speech of all Classes of Society for
more than Three Hundred Years.
WITH SYNONYMS IN ENGLISH,
FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, ETC.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY
JOHN S. FARMER and W. E.
HENLEY.
VOL. III.—Fla. ǵLj Hyps.
PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.
MDCCCXCIII.
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Vol. III.
A Dictionary of Slang and its Analogues.

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labbergast, verb. (colloquial). To astound; to stagger, either physically or mentally. [O. E., flĵœ = to frighten + ƄĵǪǵ = to scare.] Fr., abalober; baba (from ébahi = astounded); épater (= flatten out). Sp., quedarse de, or hecho, una pieza (= ‘knocked all of a heap’). See

FƯLjLjǡŧŠ.

1772. Annual Register, ‘On New Words.’ Now we are flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ and bored from morning to night.

1823. Bŧŧ, Dict. of the Turf, etc., p. 79. His colleagues were flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ when they heard of Castlereagh’s sudden death.

1837. Bĵǡƒĵƽ, Ingoldsby Legends (‘Brothers of Birchington’). He was quite flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ to see the amount.

1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 261. We rather just imagine they will be not a little puzzled and flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ to discover the meaning or wit of some of those elegant phrases.

1864. Derby Day, p. 67. You’re sort of flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ. It’s taken all the wind out of you like, and you feel like an old screw a blowing up Highgate

Hill.

1889. Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette, 18 Jan. Poor Clarke was completely flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ.

1891. National Observer, 1 Aug. In no other sport is the laudator temporis acti so completely flĵœœŧǡƄĵǪǵŧŠ as here.

Flabberdegaz, subs. (theatrical).—Words interpolated to dissemble a lapse of memory; ƄĵƄ (q.v.). Also, imperfect utterance or bad acting.

Flag, subs. (old).—1. A groat, or fourpenny piece. Also FƯĵƄƄ, and

FƯĵƄƄŧ. For synonyms, see JLjŧΏ.

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