flustrate

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)

(colloquial) To fluster or frustrate.
- 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
  The spelling has been modernized.

Related terms edit

flustration

References edit

“flustrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

^ “flustrate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams edit

lust after

Esperanto edit

Adverb edit

flustrate

present adverbial passive participle of flustri

[1] “flustrate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[1]