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Fluttering vs Flustering - What's the difference?

fluttering | flustering |

As verbs the difference between fluttering and flustering

is that fluttering is while flustering is .

As a noun fluttering

is rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.

As an adjective flustering is

agitated, confusing.

fluttering

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
    • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite
  • * 1844 , Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
    • Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings , together with low clatterings, approached her ear.

    Verb

    (head)

    • flustering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • agitated, confusing
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  • * 2004 , Geoffrey Petty, Teaching Today: A Practical Guide , page 361
    • There is nothing more flustering than to wrestle with an unfamiliar piece of equipment in the presence of a class!
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    • Derived terms

    * flusteringly

    Verb

    (head)