different between surprise vs flabbergastation

English

Alternative forms

• surprize (US, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English surprise, borrowed from Middle French surprise (“an overtake”), nominal use of the past participle of Old French sorprendre (“to overtake”), from sor- (“over”) + prendre (“to take”), from Latin super- + Latin prendere, contracted from prehendere (“to grasp, seize”). Doublet of suppli.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??p?a?z/
• (General American) enPR: s?rpr?z?, IPA^(key): /s??p?a?z/
• (General American, r-dissimilation) enPR: s?pr?z?, IPA^(key): /s??p?a?z/
• Hyphenation: sur?prise
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

surprise (countable and uncountable, plural surprises)

1. Something unexpected.
   • 2013, Daniel Taylor, Rickie Lambert’s debut goal gives England victory over Scotland (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[1]

     They had begun brightly but the opening goal was such a blow to their confidence it almost came as a surprise when Walcott, running through the inside-right channel, beat the offside trap and, checking back on to his left foot, turned a low shot beyond Allan McGregor in the Scotland goal.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Surprise! - A party! Awesome!

2. The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
3. (obsolete) A dish covered with a crust of raised pastry, but with no other contents.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of King to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (something unexpected): more than one bargained for
• (attributively: unexpected): unexpected
• (feeling): astonishment

Derived terms

• take by surprise
• surpriseful
• surpriseless

Translations

Verb

surprise (third-person singular simple present surprises, present participle surprising, simple past and past participle surprised)

1. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.

2. (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.

3. (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.

4. (intransitive) To cause surprise.
5. (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
6. (transitive) To take unawares.

Synonyms

• (to come upon unexpectedly): overtake

Translations

Anagrams

• spurries, uprisers

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French surprise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?r?pri?z?/
• Hyphenation: sur?pri?se
• Rhymes: -i?z?

Noun

surprise f (plural surprises, diminutive surprisetje n)

1. (Netherlands) a gift wrapped in an ingenious or creative manner; often given anonymously during Sinterklaas celebrations in a similar way to secret Santa
2. a surprise gift
3. (obsolete) a surprise

   Synonym: verrassing

Derived terms

• sinterklaassurprise

French

Etymology

From the feminine of surpris, past participle of the verb surprendre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.p?iz/

Verb

surprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of surprendre

Adjective

surprise

1. feminine singular of surpris

Noun

surprise f (plural surprises)

1. surprise (something unexpected)

Derived terms

• quelle surprise

Further reading

• “surprise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

surprise f (plural surprises)

1. Alternative form of surprinse

Adjective

surprise

1. feminine singular of surpris

Verb

surprise

1. feminine singular of the past participle of surprendre

English

Etymology

flabbergast +? -ation

Noun

flabbergastation (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.
   • 1856. Punch, Vol. 31. The Punch Office. page 240.

     We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.

   • 1832-1837. Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories: Volume 2. Kessinger Publishing. page 65

     Upon a sign, she takes ahold of two cords of black silk, to which were attached loops, through which she passes her arms, and in the twinkling of an eye is translated by two pulleys from her bed through the ceiling into the room above, and the trap closing as it has opened, left the old duenna in a state of great flabbergastation, when, turning her head, she neither saw robe nor woman, and perceived that the women had been robbed.

   • 1918. Shaw Desmond. The Soul of Denmark. C. Scribner's Sons. page 96.

     I can recall my flabbergastation when in the house of a Jutlander of the middle class I heard him holding fluent converse with his children in some heathen dialect...

   • 1944. Field and Stream: Volume 49. CBS Publications. page 90.

     Winchester .22 Automatic which we saw demonstrated (to our utter flabbergastation) in a local hardware store by a visiting Winchester representative.

   • 1998. Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly as "The Little Book". Daniel Quinn, Tom Whalen. Random House Digital.

     Ignoring the other's utter flabbergastation, Matthews turned and graciously introduced him to me.

2. (archaic, colloquial, humorous) The act of confounding or bewildering.

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