Fluster vs Flusher - What's the difference?
fluster | flusher |
(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
The mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.
Agent noun of flush: one who flushes.
(US, politics) A worker for a political campaign who persuades voters to vote on Election Day
*{{quote-book, 1996, Larry J. Sabato & Glenn R. Simpson, Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics
, passage=Each flusher is typically paid $20 to $50. Fleets of cars, buses, and other vehicles are also at the ready to ferry voters to and from the polls.}}
English agent nouns
As a verb fluster
is .As a noun flusher is
the mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.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.
Derived terms
* flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)Anagrams
* *flusher
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Noun
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