verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To fluster or frustrate. colloquial

   "We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch"

Example

More examples

"We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch"

Etymology

From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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