? Sc. rare. [f. next; for the sense cf. ‘flabrigast to gasconade. Perthshire’ (Jam.).] Bombast.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., IV. Sept., 161/2. ‘The Asiatic style of oratory,’ with all its tawdry tinsel,—its extravagant peurilities,—its Turkey-carpet colouring,—its meretricious flabbergast,—its diluvial verbiage, is the ‘favourite without merit’ in the remotest island on the western frotier.
