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Definition: Gobsmacked |
GobsmackedAdjective1. (British; informal) utterly astounded. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| "Gobsmacked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 73.91% of the time. "Gobsmacked" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 73.91% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.04% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gobsmacked | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gobsmacked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | ошеломляющий, потрясающий (corking, startling). (various references) | |
Thai | ประหลาดใจมาก (bowl out), ประหลาดใจ (astound). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-g-k-m-o-s" | |
-2 letters: dockages. | |
-3 letters: bemocks, bodegas, boscage, boskage, comakes, dockage, gemsbok, smacked, smocked. | |
-4 letters: abodes, adobes, backed, badges, basked, bemock, bodega, cadges, cameos, casked, comade, comake, combed, combes, dagoes, demobs, dogmas, dosage, embosk, gambes, geckos, masked, maskeg, mocked, omegas, sacked, seadog, smoked, soaked, socage, socked. | |
-5 letters: abode, acmes, adobe, ambos, amoks, asked, backs, badge, baked, bakes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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