fluttered
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]fluttered
- simple past and past participle of flutter
Adjective
[edit]fluttered (comparative more fluttered, superlative most fluttered)
- Confused, befuddled, flustered.
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXIX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 196:
- At this moment Lord Meersbrook stopped at Lady Anne's stand, and took out his pocket-book, on which, though much fluttered, she smiled most graciously, saying, "Thank you, my lord, I am most happy to see you, you are going to bring me good fortune. Here are purses, my lord, card-cases, pincushions———"