fluster
Pronunciation: /ˈflʌstə/
The English word “fluster” has 13 meanings listed here.
verb
- 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 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.
- 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.
noun
Etymology
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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