fluster

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

   “The aged housekeeper was no less flustered and hurried in obeying the numerous and contradictory commands of her mistress, […]”

2. fiil To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
3. fiil To turn on, to make horny.
4. fiil To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.

   “His practice of flustering himself daily with claret was hardly considered as a fault by his contemporaries.”

5. fiil To be agitated and confused; to bustle.

   “He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people.”

6. fiil To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
7. fiil To become turned on, to become horny.
8. fiil To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
9. fiil To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.

   “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, […]”

10. fiil Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.
11. isim A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.

    “Good-morrovv, Madam; hovv do you do to-day? you ſeem to be in a little fluſter.”

12. isim A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.

    “It is certainly a very agreeable change, when we see a glass raise a lifeless conversation into all the pleasures of wit and good humour. But when Caska adds to his natural impudence the fluster of a bottle, that which fools call fire when he was sober, all men abhor as outrage when he is drunk.”

13. isim Showiness, splendour.

    “Yet to vvork he fell, not omitting firſt to Sum himſelf up in the vvhole vvardrobe of his Function; […] as to the end that being huff'd up in all his Eccleſiaſtical fluſter, he might appear more formidable, and in the pride of his Heart and Habit, out-boniface an Humble Moderator.”