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Fluster vs Bummer - What's the difference?

fluster | bummer |

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

  • (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
  • * Macaulay
  • His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
  • (by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
  • He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
  • To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
  • * South
  • The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.

    Derived terms

    * flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)

    Anagrams

    * *

    bummer

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • Derived terms
    * (noun)

    Etymology 2

    From bum + .

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (bum)
  • Etymology 3

    From bum + .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
  • That's a total bummer .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
  • Etymology 4

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, slang, uncommon) homosexual male