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Definitions
To make someone nervous or confused.
Word origin
The verb is probably from Middle English *flostren (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agitation; blustering”)) from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language; compare Icelandic flaustra (“to bustle”), flaustr (“a bustle; a hurry”). Compare Old English flustrian (“to weave, plait, braid”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Make nervous”7 letters
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