fluster

1. (transitive)Examples: "The aged housekeeper was no less flustered and hurried in obeying the numerous and contradictory commands of her mistress, […]"; "Weel, Sam'l, I d'na want to fluster ye, but she's been ower lang wi' Lisbeth Fargus no to hae learnt her ways."Synonyms: agitate, bewilder, addle, baffle, lose, stick, stump, baffoundtransitive

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3. (transitive)Examples: "Three lads of Cypres, noble ſvvelling ſpirits, / That hold their honour, in a vvary diſtance, / The very Elements of this vvarlike Iſle, / Haue I tonight fluſtred vvith flovving cups, / And the vvatch too: novv mongſt this flocke of drunkards, / I am to put our Caſsio in ſome action, / That may offend the Iſle; […]"; "His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries."; "[S]ome [letters] are composed in a high state of vinous excitement, when his head is flustered with Burgundy, and his heart abounds with amorous warmth for his darling Prue: some are under the influence of the dismal headache and repentance next morning: […]"datedtransitive

4. (intransitive)Examples: "He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people."; "[H]e broke out upon Mrs. Sumfit: "Now, then, mother!" which caused her to fluster guiltily, […]"; "A little bit before morning the Dutch gunboat come flustering up, and the two ships stood together watching the lights burn out and out, till there was nothing left 'cept Flores Straits, all green and wet, and a dozen wreck-buoys, and Wurlee Light."intransitive

5. (intransitive)Britishdialectalintransitive

6. (intransitive)Examples: "And the Apoſtle [Paul] ſeems here moſt peculiarly to have directed this Encomium of the Gospel, as a Defiance to the Philoſophers of his Time, the Fluſtring Vain-glorious Greeks, vvho pretended ſo much to magnify, and even Adore the VViſdom they profeſſed, […]"intransitiveobsolete