fluster

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Heat; glow; agitation; confusion; disorder.--Webster.


When Caska adds to his natural impudence the fluster of a bottle, that which fools called fire when he was sober, all men abhor as outrage when he is drunk.--Tattler, No. 150.

The parish need not have been in such a fluster with Molly. You might have told them, child, your grandmother wore better things new out of the shop.--Fielding's History of a Foundling.

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