ppl. a. [f. FLUSTER v.]
1. Half-drunk, fuddled.
1615. Sir E. Hoby, Curry-combe, i. 11. Yet as flustred as hee was … hee could text her with Labia Sacerdotis custodiunt sapientiam.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 3, 16 April, ¶ 1. Take this publick Occasion, to admonish a Young Nobleman, who came flustered into the Box last Night, and let him know, how much all his Friends were out of Countenance for him.
1824. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Capt. Jackson. You got flustered, without knowing whence; tipsy upon words; and reeled under the potency of his unperforming Bacchanalian encouragements.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, xiii. Nanty was one of those topers, who, becoming early what bon vivants term flustered, remain whole nights and days at the same point of intoxication; and, in fact, as they are seldom entirely sober, can be as rarely seen absolutely drunk.
1889. Barrère & Leland, Slang Dict., Flustered (common), intoxicated.
2. Confused, disconcerted, flurried.
1743. Fielding, J. Wild, II. v. Mr. Heartfree himself was, he said, too much flustered to examine the woman with sufficient art.
1797. Mrs. Radcliffe, Italian, xxx. (1824), 699. My lord came out of the room, and he seemed very much flustered, they say, that is, very angry and yet very sorrowful.
1863. Mrs. C. Clarke, Shaks. Char., xv. 377–8. The former scene is a vivid picture of a flustered man, who has lost his self-possession from consciousness of the responsibility attaching to his office of regent.
3. dial. (See quot.)
1876. Whitby Gloss., Fluster’d, reddened or irritated … said of the feet.
