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fluster

UK /ˈflʌstə/US /ˈflʌstəɹ/

verb 10
noun 3
forms 3

verb10

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To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
- The aged housekeeper was no less flustered and hurried in obeying the numerous and contradictory commands of her mistress, […] — 1816
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To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
- He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people.
To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
(slang) To turn on, to make horny.
(slang) To become turned on, to become horny.
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(old-fashioned) To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
- His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries. — 1851
(dialect, UK) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
(no longer used) To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.
(no longer used) Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

noun3

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A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.
- Good-morrovv, Madam; hovv do you do to-day? you seem to be in a little fluster. — 1727
(no longer used) A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.
(no longer used) Showiness, splendour.

forms

flustered · flustering · flusters

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