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Fluster   /flˈəstər/   Listen
Fluster

noun
1.
A disposition that is confused or nervous and upset.  Synonym: perturbation.






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"Fluster" Quotes from Famous Books



... taking up the work, let us make this suggestion: In the seclusion of your home or elsewhere, draw the first scene of your talk completely. Thus you will have plenty of time to make it to suit you, with no one to look on and fluster or confuse you. Then cover up the completed work, by placing another sheet of paper over it. When you appear before the audience to give your talk, give your spoken introduction and lead up to the first scene. At this point, remove ...
— Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear - Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks • B.J. Griswold

... but ye're richt, Leeby; for Chirsty would be in an oncommon fluster if she thocht the lad's mither was likely to hear 'at her best chair was torn. Ay, ay, bein' a man, he wouldna think to tak off the chintz an' hae a look at the chair ...
— A Window in Thrums • J. M. Barrie

... had kept her room since the day before, but remained attentive to all that was happening at the Old Mill, had, through her open door and window, heard and seen the hubbub, the fuss made by the servants, all the mad fluster of a house that feels itself threatened ...
— The Frontier • Maurice LeBlanc



Words linked to "Fluster" :   comport, acquit, confuse, discomposure, ruffle, deport, behave, bear, carry, flurry, disconcert, conduct, put off



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