flustrate
English
Etymology
See fluster.
Verb
flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)
- (colloquial) To fluster.
- 1712 October 6 (Gregorian calendar), Richard Steele, “THURSDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flustrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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