flustering

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English

Etymology

From fluster +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Adjective

flustering (comparative more flustering, superlative most flustering)

  1. Agitated, confusing.
    • 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. , volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 53:
      To me it seems, Mabel, that whenever a thing is really grand and potent, it has a quiet majesty about it, that is altogether unlike the frothy and flustering manner of smaller matters, and so it was with them rapids.
    • 1875, Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, :
      There is always a flustering breeze in the air and a perturbation generally through the county when they come or go, […]
    • 1997, Rosemary Perry, Teaching Practice: A Guide for Early Childhood Students, Routledge, page 57:
      Although at times my prac experiences were flustering and frustrating, I have gained many new insights into catering for the individual needs of children.
    • 2004, Geoffrey Petty, Teaching Today: A Practical Guide, page 361:
      There is nothing more flustering than to wrestle with an unfamiliar piece of equipment in the presence of a class!
    • 2007, Frank Swinnerton, Coquette, READ BOOKS, page 39:
      She almost forgot Toby while she was bathed in this flustering brilliance of light and noise.
  2. (obsolete) Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.
    • 1694 May 9 (Gregorian calendar); first published 1698, Robert South, “Christianity Mysterious, and the Wisdom of God in Making it so, Proved in a Sermon Preached at Westminster-Abbey, April 29. 1694.”, in Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume III, London: Tho Warren for Thomas Bennet , →OCLC, page 263:
      And the Apoſtle [Paul] ſeems here moſt peculiarly to have directed this Encomium of the Gospel, as a Defiance to the Philoſophers of his Time, the Fluſtring Vain-glorious Greeks, vvho pretended ſo much to magnify, and even Adore the VViſdom they profeſſed, […]

Derived terms

Verb

flustering

  1. present participle and gerund of fluster
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