Fluster vs Bummer - What's the difference?
fluster | bummer |
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
(obsolete) A forager especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
(US, slang, dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
(bum)
Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
As a verb fluster
is .As a noun bummer is
(obsolete) a forager especially in sherman's march to the sea of november to december 1864 or bummer can be a disappointment, a pity, a shame or bummer can be (british|slang|uncommon) homosexual male.As an adjective bummer is
(bum).As an interjection bummer is
exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).fluster
English
Verb
- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.