fluster

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈflʌstə/    美 /ˈflʌstəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state. obsolete
    — 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.
  3. Showiness, splendour. obsolete
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse. transitive
    — The aged housekeeper was no less flustered and hurried in obeying the numerous and contradictory commands of her mistress, […]
  2. To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context. transitive
  3. To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.; To turn on, to make horny. broadly,transitive
  4. To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy. dated,transitive
    — Three lads of Cypres, noble ſvvelling ſpirits, / That hold their honour, in a vvary diſtance, / The very Elements of this vvarlike Iſle, / Haue I tonight fluſtred vvith flovving cups, / And the vvatch too: novv mongſt this flocke of drunkards, / I am to put our Caſsio in ſome action, / That may offend the Iſle; […]
  5. To be agitated and confused; to bustle. intransitive
    — He seemed to fluster when speaking in front of many people.
  6. To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context. intransitive
  7. To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.; To become turned on, to become horny. broadly,intransitive
  8. To catch attention; to be showy or splendid. UK,dialectal,intransitive
  9. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger. intransitive,obsolete
    — 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. Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly. intransitive,obsolete

词形变化

flusters present,singular,third-person flustering participle,present flustered participle,past flustered past flusters plural

词汇关系

近义词
faze
衍生词
flusteration flustered flusterer flustering flusterment flustery flustrate flustration unflusterable unflustered

词源

词源 1
The verb is probably from Middle English *flostren (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agitation; blustering”)) from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language; compare Icelandic flaustra (“to bustle”), flaustr (“a bustle; a hurry”). Compare Old English flustrian (“to weave, plait, braid”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
词源 2
The verb is probably from Middle English *flostren (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agitation; blustering”)) from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language; compare Icelandic flaustra (“to bustle”), flaustr (“a bustle; a hurry”). Compare Old English flustrian (“to weave, plait, braid”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
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