Word of the week

Back to a word of the week.  This week's word: GOBSMACKED

"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.

Gobsmacked combines the northern English and Scottish slang term gob, mouth, with the verb smack. It suggests the speaker is utterly astonished or astounded.  It's much stronger than just being surprised; it's used for something that leave you speechless, or otherwise stops you dead in your tracks.  It suggests that something is surprising as being suddenly hit in the face." - www.worldwidewords.com

Basically, like the above bit says, the word "gobsmacked" basically means that you find something really incredible and are left speechless by it; it can be positive or negative (when I first heard the word I thought it was "God-smacked", haha).

Example:  "He was gobsmacked when he found out he won the lottery."