But behold, gobstopper already existed, and the suffix -stopping did, too, in such words as heart-stopping and show-stopping. Slang (1 matching dictionary) gobsmacked: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom home, info Quick definitions from Macmillan (. I was gobsmacked when I saw the awesome beauty of the glowing sunset on the white sand of the beach. My best guess is that gobstopping happened because gobsmacked doesn’t easily converty to an adjective meaning that which causes one to be or feel gobsmacked. (If you have tender sensibilities, I suggest you do not read the entries at Urban Dictionary, which are very different.) Gobstopping and the phrase a gobstopper of a show up occasionally in various internet outposts, generally meaning something along the lines of astounding or amazing. You could only sit back, mute, at the gobstopping wonder of it all.” Moving to the New York Times (of New York), it appears exactly once, in a 2007 quote from the blogger Sara Robinson: “Reading Gilley on NYC was like reading Molly Ivins on Texas. Gill in October 2011: “…if you ask me, and I suppose you are, to recommend just one gobstopping, heart-racing dinner in all of London, it would be Hedone.”
It has been used a total of three times by The Times (of London), most recently this by A.A. Copyright 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Is Noam Scheiber alone in making a sweet into an adjective having nothing to do with sweets? Well, no again. Extremely surprised or shocked astounded: I was gobsmacked to learn that my cousin is a spy. spherical sweet for sucking.” Fans of Roald Dahl may recall the “Everlasting Gobstopper” featured in “Charley and the Chocolate Factory” and the subsequent film “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” The OED does, however, have an entry for gobstopper, to wit: “a large, hard, freq. Well, no–and neither, I discovered, has the Oxford English Dictionary. Have you come across “gob-stopping” before? Where it all will end knows Gob.įor the record, Scheiber was a Rhodes scholar. Personally, I was gob-smacked by this locution and so startled that I gobbed on my carpet. On page 41 Scheiber writes: “Simply put, Summers believed that a $1.2 trillion proposal, to say nothing of $1.8 trillion, would be dead on arrival in Congress because of the political resistance to such gob-stopping sums.” I just came upon the following in a new book called “The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery,” by Noam Scheiber. My friend Andrew Feinberg e-mailed me as follows:
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