fluster.
To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
Meaning & usage
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 emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context. To turn on, to make horny.
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.
He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people.
To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context. To become turned on, to become horny.
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.
Where this word comes from
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”). The noun is derived from the verb.
A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.
A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.
Showiness, splendour.
Where this word comes from
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”). The noun is derived from the verb.
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