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Joking vs Flustered - What's the difference?

joking | flustered |

As verbs the difference between joking and flustered

is that joking is present participle of lang=en while flustered is past tense of fluster.

As a noun joking

is the act of telling or engaging in jokes.

As an adjective flustered is

confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion.

joking

English

Verb

(head)
  • (British, US, Ireland, colloquial, transitive) Kidding, trying to fool.
    • Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of telling or engaging in jokes.
  • * Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
    • No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility

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    flustered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Confused, befuddled, in a state of panic by having become overwrought with confusion.
    • The speaker became quite flustered when she dropped all her notes.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fluster)

    • See also

    * fluster * catch off guard