flustrate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fluster + -ate (verb-forming suffix).[1]
Verb
[edit]flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)
- (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
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “flustrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “flustrate, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Adverb
[edit]flustrate
- present adverbial passive participle of flustri