Crossword clues for fluster
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fluster \Flus"ter\, v. i. To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
The flstering, vainglorious Greeks.
--South.
Fluster \Flus"ter\, n. Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.
Fluster \Flus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flustered; p. pr. & vb. n. Flustering.] [Cf. Icel. flaustra to be flustered, flaustr a fluster.] To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
His habit or flustering himself daily with claret.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c. (implied in flostrynge), "bluster, agitate," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Icelandic flaustr "bustle," flaustra "to bustle"), from Proto-Germanic *flaustra-. Originally "to excite," especially with drink; sense of "to flurry, confuse" is from 1724. Related: Flustered; flustering; flustery. As a noun, 1710, from the verb.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context dated English) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking. 2 (context by extension English) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion. 3 (context intransitive English) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
WordNet
n. a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset [syn: perturbation]
v. be flustered; behave in a confused manner
cause to be nervous or upset
Usage examples of "fluster".
Tarquine and Ardoise immediately rose to their feet, though Tarquine did it with that quirk of her eyebrows that so flustered him.
I regretted having yelled, but when it comes to creepy-crawlies I immediately lose my gonads, become all hoopskirts and fluster.
Bill talked about giving his girlfriend crotchless panty hose for Christmas while Letterman looked appropriately flustered.
The Motion which acts upon Sensible objects enters from without, and so shakes, drives, rouses and thrusts its participants that they may neither rest nor preserve their identity--and all to the end that they may be caught into that restlessness, that flustering excitability which is but an image of Life.
Every once in a while Matt would mess up and he looked so flustered that Maureen would erupt into giggles, laughing so hard that she had to press on her diaphragm to stop.
She looked guilty as much as flustered, and walked with small jerky steps between the long-legged Isabella and myself as we joined Orkney in the parade ring, no later than any other owner-trainer group.
The commander strode into the street, followed by flustered aides clutching luggage and maps.
His aide stopped dead, face flustered, and Anderson shook his head in exasperation.
He loves that flustered shyness as she delves between the chairs to produce a slim portfolio, the battered covers adorned with Simpsons stickers.
The flustered Liantine harbormaster had met him at the dock, conveying the royal party to the Great Hall with a combination of exasperation and concern.
But the immediate effect on the flustered and despoiled unfortunate one had been great enough to justify Lopez in taking strong steps if strong steps could in any way benefit himself.
Her kind heart went out to patients who, for the first time, arrived for treatment and wandered in bewilderment all over the place, despite the little signposts none of them ever saw, until someone took pity on them and showed them the way, to arrive, hot and flustered, late for their appointment.
She flustered that he was a naughty boy as she came all the way up with a tray of fresh tostadas and rum punch, made this time with just the lemon, sugar, and yerba buena, a sort of dry-country mint Spanish-speaking folks fancied more than some.
Jaurin was surprised to see General Ali Amin return to the waiting room, anxious and flustered.
Mrs Cantrip was in her rocking chair, engrossed in her 143 paper, a little flustered because he had caught her in idleness.