Gobsmacked

Gobsmacked
/gobsmakt/

adjective British informal
utterly astonished; astounded

Example: 'I was gobsmacked when I received a message from Rosina this morning announcing her intention to return to the UK before Xmas and for good!'


Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
at home, whispering of fields half-sown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
until this morning and this madness.
If anything might rouse him now,
the kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds,—
woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
full-nerved—still warm—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
to break earth’s sleep at all?

Wilfred Owen May 1918, with one word changed by TerryBob, November 2015