ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fluster

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈflʌstə/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Fluster is a verb meaning To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

Meaning

To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.
Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

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, […]

His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries.

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.

Depending on context, synonyms include faze, agitate, bewilder, addle, baffle, lose.

Related dictionary entries include perturbation, addle, flusterate, beflutter, flurry, overflush.

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