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So, I'm reading a post the other day and I come across this word that creates a mental image for me. I have no way of knowing whether that mental image is correct or not, unless I head out into cyberland and trust my education to an on-line dictionary or thesaurus.:-2

I've heard it often on this site and I may have even asked what it meant before, but I've never actually looked it up. It's one of those words you just assume with.



Now, I don't want anyone to copy and paste from dictionaries and such. I want to know what you think this word means, or at least what it means to you.....



GOBSMACKED:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Caught by surprise?

It's quite a regular and common word here in the UK and we take it to mean "made speechless" "totally amazed", usually by the inanity of what was witnessed

I think of candy..................

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Left speechless...!!

flopstock;1311368 wrote: So, I'm reading a post the other day and I come across this word that creates a mental image for me. I have no way of knowing whether that mental image is correct or not, unless I head out into cyberland and trust my education to an on-line dictionary or thesaurus.:-2

I've heard it often on this site and I may have even asked what it meant before, but I've never actually looked it up. It's one of those words you just assume with.



Now, I don't want anyone to copy and paste from dictionaries and such. I want to know what you think this word means, or at least what it means to you.....



GOBSMACKED:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl
:wah:

A gob is what us Northerners call a mouth.

where's Nomie, he'll know!:yh_rotfl

Like Abbey said. Gob is slang for mouth.. And when you clap your hand to your mouth in shock/surprise, you're Gobsmacked!! :p

My first thought was a bi**h slap or sucker punch .

It tends to be northern, too. Dahn Sarf it's considered vulgar. One isn't merely gobsmacked, one were invariably reet gobsmacked.

flopstock;1311368 wrote: I want to know what you think this word means, or at least what it means to you.....



GOBSMACKED yh_rotfl yh_rotfl


It is a coarse expression meaning "rendered speechless by surprise".

stunned:eek: