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Fluster vs Flusteration - What's the difference?

fluster | flusteration |

As a verb fluster

is .

As a noun flusteration is

(colloquial|dated) the act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.

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)

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    flusteration

    English

    Noun

  • (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
    • (Webster 1913)