Flustering
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 present participle and gerund of fluster form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 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 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, […]"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From fluster + -ing.
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