or flustrated, ppl. adj. (old and colloquial).—Confused; in a state of heat or excitement. Cf., FLUSTERED.
1712. Spectator, No. 493. We were coming down Essex Street one night a little FLUSTRATED.
1766. COLMAN, The Clandestine Marriage, V., in works (1777) i. 271. Your mind is too much FLUSTRATED, and you can neither eat nor drink.
1843. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Courtship, i. Somehow I was so FLUSTRATED that I tuck the rong way.
1843. W. T. PORTER, ed., The Big Bear of Arkansas, etc., p. 98. I sot down, being sorter FLUSTICATED like, thinkin’ of that skrape, last time I was there.
