gobsmacked

the word of the day is 'gobsmacked.' i love that word. dictionary.com would not give me the official definition without paying,so i googled* and found this:

It is a fairly recent British slang term: the first recorded use is only in the eighties, though verbal use must surely go back further. The usual form is gobsmacked, though gobstruck is also found. It's a combination of gob, mouth, and smacked. It means utterly astonished, astounded. 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 that something is as surprising as being suddenly hit in the face. It comes from northern dialect, most probably popularised through television programmes set in Liverpool, where it was common. It's an obvious derivation of an existing term, since gob, originally from Scotland and the north of England, has been a dialect and slang term for the mouth for four hundred years (often in insulting phrases like 'shut your gob!' to tell somebody to be quiet). It possibly goes back to the Scottish Gaelic word meaning a beak or a mouth, which has also bequeathed us the verb to gob, meaning to spit. Another form of the word is gab, from which we get gift of the gab.

from michael quinion's words of the world

i don't know where i've heard of this word,as i haven't been watching very much liverpudlian television lately, being so busy and all. : z
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*google's logo has been very entertaining lately