flusteredadj.
/ˈflʌstəd/, U.S. /ˈfləstərd/ 1. Half-drunk, fuddled.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > partially drunk
merrya1382
semi-bousyc1460
pipe merry1542
totty1570
tipsy1577
martin-drunk1592
pleasant1596
mellow1611
tip-merry1612
flustered1615
lusticka1616
well to live1619
jolly1652
happy1662
hazy1673
top-heavy1687
hearty1695
half-seas-over1699
oiled1701
mellowish1703
half channelled over1709
drunkish1710
half-and-half1718
touched1722
uppisha1726
tosie1727
bosky1730
funny1751
fairish1756
cherry-merry1769
in suds1770
muddy1776
glorious1790
groggified1796
well-corned1800
fresh1804
to be mops and brooms1814
foggy1816
how-come-ye-so1816
screwy1820
off the nail1821
on (also, esp. in early use, upon) the go1821
swipey1821
muggy1822
rosy1823
snuffy1823
spreeish1825
elevated1827
up a stump1829
half-cockedc1830
tightish1830
tipsified1830
half shaved1834
screwed1837
half-shot1838
squizzed1845
drinky1846
a sheet in the wind1862
tight1868
toppy1885
tiddly1905
oiled-up1918
bonkers1943
sloshed1946
tiddled1956
hickey-
1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 11 Yet as flustred as hee was..hee could text her with Labia Sacerdotis custodiunt sapientiam.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 3. ⁋1 A Young Nobleman who came flustered into the Box last Night.
1824 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 481/2 You got flustered, without knowing whence; tipsy upon words.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 315 Becoming early what bon vivants term flustered.
1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Flustered (common) intoxicated.
2. Confused, disconcerted, flurried.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adjective]
bemazed?c1225
madc1300
maskedc1300
marreda1375
astoniedc1386
adasedc1450
astonished1513
moping1566
bewandered1574
dizzy1579
westy1598
night-wildered1652
disconcerted1686
muzzy1723
flustered1743
bewildered1760
flurried1775
muddled1790
thought-bewildered1796
bedazzled1805
muggy1824
mused1842
moony1847
beflustered1864
bemused1880
snarled1881
bedazed1882
bemuddled1883
disoriented1957
disorientated1959
wifty1973
the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated
high-wrought1579
feverous1587
tremulous1611
feverish1637
overwound1640
gestient1644
overwrought1648
twittering1648
fevereda1657
tumultuous1667
wrought-up1688
flustered1743
trepidatinga1774
flurried1775
wrought1778
riled1825
tête montée1825
worked up1831
tumultuating1854
trepidant1891
tremorous1897
wroughted1905
goosy1906
hotted-up1923
steamed1923
spooky1926
antsy-pantsy1944
antsy1950
agitato1964
amped1967
wired1970
1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild ii. v, in Misc. III. 132 Heartfree..was..too much flustered to examine the Woman with sufficient Art.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. ix. 332 My Lord..seemed very much flustered.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xv. 377 A vivid picture of a flustered man.
3. dialect. (See quot. 1876.)
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1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Fluster'd, reddened or irritated..said of the feet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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