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Well no, it isn’t, actually. The German word for bat is ‘Fledermaus’, as in Johann Strauss’ famous operette Die Fledermaus. ‘Flabberghast’ seems to derive more from the plain English ‘flabbergasted’ (meaning: astonished beyond belief). Similarly, ‘die flabbergast’ apparently was a Mozart-spoofing sketch that Dudley Moore did in Beyond The Fringe.

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