flustering en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree English fluster Middle English -ynge English -ing English flustering From fluster + -ing.
Meanings
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Agitated, confusing.
There is nothing more flustering than to wrestle with an unfamiliar piece of equipment in the presence of a class!
2004, Geoffrey Petty, Teaching Today: A Practical Guide, page 361:Although at times my prac experiences were flustering and frustrating, I have gained many new insights into catering for the individual needs of children.
1997, Rosemary Perry, Teaching Practice: A Guide for Early Childhood Students, Routledge, page 57:She almost forgot Toby while she was bathed in this flustering brilliance of light and noise.
2007, Frank Swinnerton, Coquette, READ BOOKS, page 39: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.
1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 53:There is always a flustering breeze in the air and a perturbation generally through the county when they come or go, […]
1873 May 1 – December 22 (date written), Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published June 1875, →OCLC:
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(obsolete) Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.
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, […]
1694 May 8 (date delivered; 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[mas] Warren for Thomas Bennet […], →OCLC, page 263:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most flustering | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more flustering | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |