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flaber
† ˈflaber, a. Obs. rare—1. [Cf. flab n.] ? = flaberkin.1687 A. Behn Lucky Chance ii. i, There's no other way of quenching the fire in her flaber chops.
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flaberkin
† ˈflaberkin, a. Obs. rare—1. [? f. flaber (recorded later, but perh. in dial. use) + -kin.] Puffed out, puffy.1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (ed. 2) 2 a, Nature hath left him a flaberkin face, like one of the foure winds.
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flabergullion
† ˈflaberˌgudgion, ˌflaberˈgullion Obs. [The assonance of these forms with clapperdudgeon, slubberdegullion (also slabber-), and the similarity of sense, suggest that they may either be variants of one word, or at least belong to the same group of experiments in the invention of grotesque words.] (S...
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Shopping addiction
Several studies (Flaber, O´Guin and Krych in 1987, Scherhorn 1990, and McElroy in 1994), agree that women spend more on clothes, footwear, perfumes and
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flabbergast
▪ I. ˈflabbergast, n. ? Sc. rare. [f. next; for the sense cf. ‘flabrigast to gasconade. Perthshire’ (Jam.).] Bombast.1831 Fraser's Mag. IV. 161 The ‘Asiatic style of oratory’ with..its meretricious flabbergast,—its diluvial verbiage.▪ II. flabbergast, v. colloq. (ˈflæbəgɑːst, -æ-) Also 8 flaba-, 9 f...
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