flustrate

English

Etymology

See fluster and frustrate.

Verb

flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)

  1. (colloquial) To fluster or frustrate.
    • 1712 October 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “THURSDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, [], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch
      The spelling has been modernized.

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Adverb

flustrate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of flustri
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