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Flustering

//ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Agitated, confusing.

    "To me it seems, Mabel, that whenever a thing is really grand and potent, it has a quiet majesty about it, that is altogether unlike the frothy and flustering manner of smaller matters, and so it was with them rapids."

  2. 2
    Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering. obsolete

    "And the Apoſtle [Paul] ſeems here moſt peculiarly to have directed this Encomium of the Gospel, as a Defiance to the Philoſophers of his Time, the Fluſtring Vain-glorious Greeks, vvho pretended ſo much to magnify, and even Adore the VViſdom they profeſſed, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fluster form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From fluster + -ing.

Etymology 2

From fluster + -ing.

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