Meaning

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

    überrumpeln, verwirren

    волнова́тьvolnovátʹ, взбудораживатьvzbudoraživatʹ

    метушитисяmetušytysja, хвилюватиxvyljuvaty, збуджуватиzbudžuvaty

  2. (transitive)To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

  3. To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

    (broadly, transitive)To turn on, to make horny.

  4. (dated, transitive)To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.

  5. (intransitive)To be agitated and confused; to bustle.

    He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people.

    be flustered; behave in a confused manner

  6. (intransitive)To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

  7. To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

    (broadly, intransitive)To become turned on, to become horny.

  8. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.

  9. (intransitive, obsolete)To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.

  10. (intransitive, obsolete)Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

Examples

46 sentences
  1. Tom seems to be slightly flustered.

  2. Tom was flustered, but Mary wasn't.

  3. Tom became flustered and a bit nervous.

  4. Tom got flustered when filling out the paperwork.

  5. Tom told me he thought Mary was flustered.

Translations

5 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic — see also befuddle, confuse:
Русский
By meaning 1
to throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic — see also befuddle, confuse:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic — see also befuddle, confuse:

Origin

The verb is probably from Middle English *flostren (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agi

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”).

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Forms

flusters, flustering, flustered, flustered
Base formfluster · to fluster
3rd person singularflusters
Present participleflustering
Past simpleflustered
Past participleflustered

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfluster
he, she, itflusters

Past simpleLesson

all personsflustered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave flustered
he, she, ithas flustered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fluster

Synonyms

45 synonyms

Word family

10 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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