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flambustered en · ADJ

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1. (historical, rare) Worried or confounded; flabbergasted.
   • Gentlemen, I never felt so flambustered in all my born days. I’m no orator like Mr Strout, but I also should like to thank the judge for his day’s work. Gentlemen, what’s the use of saying to the contrary when you don't feel it? I’m glad that Beeswing won, and it’s downright honest truth, though I say it [...] I couldn’t have lost and not showed it, like Mr Strout... 1904, Tregarthen, J. C. (John Coulson), “The Course”, in Wild life at the Land's End : observations of the habits and haunts of the fox, badger, otter, seal, hare, and of their pursuers in Cornwall, page 164:
   • I'm so 'flambustered' (worried) I can hardly speak. Somethan dreadful have happened to our Jackey; and you mustn't drop a word to anybody, for your life, of what I'll tell 'e on the road. 1880, Bottrell, William, “Mr. Wood's Assistance”, in Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall, page 5:

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