fluster
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈflʌstər/
:
confusión
- A dim light and a fluster of equipment.
Examples
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Lose something every day except the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
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Simon "Fluster", don't you mean?
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Fluster and confuse Keith Price
Blog text (6) -
Oh, gosh, I'm getting all the fluster shush emails a lot.
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Rather than return to a practiced statement of position or fluster or respond to a question that was not quite what I asked, he simply said, "You are the first person to have ever said this to me... and I'm going to have to roll that around a little bit."
Blog text (13) -
The deep fluster of fear battered me, and the stink of the river kind of forbade thought.
Fiction book (1991) -
The buzz and fluster of a woodlark's flight scissor and stitch at once!
Academic text (2015) -
"The goblin met the reverend's Jovian calm with enough fluster and squawk for a dozen fox-plagued henhouses.
Fiction book (2000) -
If we want it to happen, and we don't want it to be a complete fluster-cluck like our real-life neo-feudal system, we can't spend years hoping that a for-profit company is going to see the light.
Blog text (3) -
He felt a wave of fluster when he realized he had forgotten his lines on stage.
Synonyms
17
7.7
A sudden feeling of worry and shock when something unexpected happens
12
5.1
A feeling of nervous worry and restlessness
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8.6
Feeling very nervous and confused about something
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8.0
A nervous, confused state when you cannot decide
Antonyms
How Nervous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fluster is easy to remember if you think of it like flutter: imagine someone 'fluttering' or moving quickly and nervously so their thoughts become mixed up. That's why a fluster is a state of 'nervous confusion'.