flustrate
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English
Etymology
From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).[1]
Verb
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
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References
- “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.
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Adverb
flustrate
- present adverbial passive participle of flustri