flabbergast

may be from a  news paper, i must have picked this word, flabbergasted by its phonetic charm.

early in my career, i, not knowing the word's potential, happened to use in a normal converasation with a friend.

he did get  flabbergasted, not knowing the meaning then.

later this word became a enjoyable link between us for a long time .

one friend showering on me a  praise,  undeserved, on my supposedly high  human understanding and knowledge , flabbergasted me . i could not reply to him for 3 days.
i want to say to him that i had been flabbergasted by his compliments, before that i checked for the exact meaning
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"flabbergasted":
agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded,
at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched,
breathless, captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck,
enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced,
fascinated, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of,
lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed,
overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound,
staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck,
under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck, wondering

now it is my turn to get flabbergasted by its meaning

this word is great in rekindling many a joyous  memories, using it again and again, and deriving maximum fun.

thanks a lot