flabbergaster

1. noun

a) A person, thing, fact or event that is flabbergasting, or that causes extreme shock

Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.

b) A state of surprise or fear.

This first flabbergaster was that the new Sultan had decided he wanted at least a third of the construction crew to be made up of Saruvian workers, even though the museum would be built in Austria.

2. verb

To perplex or amaze; to shock or frighten

But Ive got an invention in my ead — at all events, the notion of an invention , that I ventures to say will work wonders in the terrestrial globe — flabbergaster the world!