Gobsmacked!
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This is going to be the easiest post I’ve ever written. Piece of cake.
That’s what I told myself at noon, anyway. I caught up on a little reading while I ate my chicken and dumpling soup, saw yet another story on the shocking singing sensation that is Susan Boyle, and fell in love with the word gobsmacked. I’m working on some other study that’s coming hard for me, and an easy post seemed just the ticket today.
So, gobsmacked.
In the CNN story, this is the word that Susan Boyle used to describe her feelings about her sudden worldwide fame. (If you are one of the half dozen people who haven’t heard of Ms. Boyle or her remarkable story, watch the video of her performance on Britain’s Got Talent here. It’s worth every minute.)
“Gobsmacked, absolutely gobsmacked,” she said.
I’m fairly adept at surmising the meaning of words from the context, so I had a good idea of what the word meant. But just in case it turned out to secretly be some highly offensive word, a little jaunt over to thefreedictionary.com was in order.
Gobsmacked Adjective
Brit, Austral & NZ slang astonished and astoundedCollins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gobsmacked
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