Meanings
verbflustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)
present singular third person flustrates · participle present flustrating · participle past flustrated · past flustrated
- colloquialTo fluster or frustrate.
We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch
1712 October 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “WEDNESDAY, 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
Origin
From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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