beflutter

present singular third person beflutters · participle present befluttering · participle past befluttered · past befluttered

1. intransitiveTo flutter around or about.
2. transitiveTo cause to flutter; fluster.

   “Yes, my Lady,” answered the abigail; “only your Ladyship has quite befluttered me; I'm not drist to appear before your Ladyship.”

   1835, The new British Novelist

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   But I hate to leave you in rusty black, poring over these musty folios, and making all those dreadful rounds, squares, and triangles — those necromancing hideous figures, for hours together, while I am befluttering myself, [...]

   1836, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Tales of the woods and fields

   I wish it may be any of their fortunes when between forty and forty-five they have been foolish enough to beflutter their spirits and senses with notions of second boyhood, [...]

   1841, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Cecil, a peer: a sequel to Cecil, or, The adventures of a coxcomb