v. vulgar or jocular. Also flusterate. [f. FLUSTER v. + -ATE3.] = FLUSTER v.2 and 4.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 493, 25 Sept., ¶ 4. We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch; he had the Impudence to tell me it was against the Law.
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), I. 106. She was, she confessed, quite flusterated at the idea of her interference in those domestic arrangements of her master, which she thought could not be in better hands than her own.
1876. Mrs. Oliphant, Curate in Charge (ed. 5), II. iv. 100. The head of the college was slightly flustrated, if such a vulgar word can be used of such a sublime person.
