A version of the text was published in 1956 as A Sort of Beauty. I’m so amazed that only the Malderbury dialect can express my condition: “I’m properly gob-smacked”.Ī Woman of Bangkok, by Jack Reynolds, 1959. A report in the Guardian in February 1985, relating an encounter with the famous footballer Sir Stanley Matthews, implied that it was even then 40 years old. Though the trail of written evidence was until recently believed to date only from the early 1980s, we knew it went back a lot further in the spoken language. Her eyes were bugged out, and she was smiling ear to ear. The noise and testosterone roiled off the track, rushed up the stands, and almost knocked me over. I was utterly gobsmacked to hear that a 22-year-old woman from America has put her virginity up for sale. It suggests that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It’s much stronger than just being surprised it’s used for something that leaves you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks. It suggests the speaker is utterly astonished or astounded. Gobsmacked combines the northern English and Scottish slang term gob, mouth, with the verb smack. What can you tell me about this term?Ī You’re most likely to come across this mainly British slang term as the adjective gobsmacked your gobsmack and another form, gobstruck, are less common.
Q From W S McCollom: I was looking at a UK magazine and ran across gobsmack.
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