Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. chiefly UK, slang Flabbergasted, astounded, speechless, overawed.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. utterly astounded
Etymologies
- As if smacked ("hit") in the gob ("mouth (Irish / Scottish gaelic)"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To say I was gobsmacked is something of an understatement.”
“I always liked the British slang "gobsmacked" -- it sounds a little violent, but sometimes you do just feel smacked by whatever's happening around you, you know?”
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Stunned
“Much to my surprise - I wrote at the time I was "gobsmacked" - he had indeed left his wife whom Casey believes had no knowledge of the affair and a more confident Casey was moving to his city to be with him.”
“Constitutional Court judges were "gobsmacked" when they learnt that”
“BONUS BOOT TO THE NADS: TPM's Josh Marshall refers to this as getting "gobsmacked":”
“He denied it was intentional, saying he was "gobsmacked" by the charge, but a FIFA disciplinary committee on Saturday found him guilty of violent conduct.”
USATODAY.com - FIFA punishment: Two-game ban for Rooney, Argentina loses two players
“Anyone who can use a word like "gobsmacked" deserves to go to Blogher.”
“Anyway, I was kind of gobsmacked by his talent and I was talking to my mum about it later this afternoon.”
“Top End Tourism spokeswoman Sylvia Wolf was "gobsmacked" at the outcome.”
“Mrs Moore said she was "gobsmacked" to hear the company had ceased trading.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gobsmacked’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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#faveword
Words chosen as favorites for the Twitter hashtag #faveword.
autumnal, grotto, chiaroscuro, sfumato, homunculus, zing, zest, effervescent, bewitch, avuncular, susurrus, Styrofoam and 205 more...
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anatomopeia
Sounds like you are .........
green-fingered, lily-livered, yellow-bellied, bleary-eyed, hare-brained, loose-tongued, tongue-tied, sure-footed, two-faced, double-jointed, light-fingered, bone idle and 71 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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thekatespanos's list
pomposity, gaggle, scintilla, lemming, bilk, vanquish, conflate, plenary, verisimilitude, perspicacious, rattletrap, obdurate and 325 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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Awesome Words, Part 2: More Common
pilgrim, indubitably, incorrigible, bombastic, histrionics, depredation, perspicuity, discombobulate, peregrination, ambulatory, redux, fractious and 164 more...
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vmarinelli's Words
canard, gumption, inexorable, insouciance, inviolable, mordant, euphonious, sawbuck, carpe diem, pay dirt, adipocere, profligate and 496 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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word set 12
plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Words and phrases of Irish origin, or...
not necessarily eponyms, but might be
boycott, blarney, banshee, galore, keen, donnybrook, colleen, drumlin, phoney, clan, cairn, ceili and 122 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gobsmacked.
chained_bear Welcome to Wordie, bnl2709! You might want to spend a few minutes checking out this site and what it's all about. It shouldn't take more than about ten minutes. Nov 25, 2008
sionnach bnl2709: Are you saying that your primary interest in Wordie is for its potential use as a mechanism for disseminating your own particular agenda? If so, I can fully understand why John might feel it's not of general interest. Nov 25, 2008
bnl2709 Bilby...I had put a couple links to the research base for BNL2709 in my profile, but it is a good idea to add a few more cross-links to Cobb's Lextutor site. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
I am quite new to WORDIE so I haven't explored all the nooks and crannies. I have put the CONCORDANCE link in as a comment because I am exploring the idea of 'data-driven learning' in terms of learning English as a foreign language. I had suggested to John that another link be added to this resource along with the various links to dictionaries, etc., but John felt it was too specific to be of general interest.
I'm just experimenting at the moment...the idea is to use this with EFL learners who need to develop an in depth knowledge of the most commonly used words in English, because they aren't exposed to English outside the classroom. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Nov 25, 2008
bilby So why not put this stuff on your profile? And not on specific words? Nov 25, 2008
bnl2709 ConcordancePowered by lexitronics Nov 25, 2008
bnl2709 Sorry Rolig...I was just creating an empty shell of a list for John to import the full list of the 2,709 words of English that make up 90% of any text and 95%+ of spoken English sometime soon. I was just playing around with what HTML codes are allowed (see CONCORDANCE link to the word "accommodate") and Turkish characters (I live in a Turkish speaking country, so we provide a Turkish translation of the most common meanings of the most commonly used words) so I deliberately chose an 'offlist' word like gobsmacked so I can delete it later after the import.
If you're curious about the research behind our list and the pedagogical implications, follow the lexitronics link or go to http://bnl2709.edublogs.org/colour-of-words - the vocabulary profiler using our words is available at http://lextutor.ca/vp/bnl
Nov 25, 2008
rolig Somehow I don't see this word as the "essence of English", bnl. Nov 23, 2008
bilby Nasty signature ... ouch, ouch! Nov 23, 2008