Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
2. To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
3. To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
4. To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
5. To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
6. To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
7. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.
8. Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

Example Sentences

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.

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: […]

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.

Word Forms

• flusters
• flustering
• flustered

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