• IPA: /ˈflʌstə/

fluster (flusters, present participle flustering; past and past participle flustered)

1. (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. (by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.

   He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.

3. (intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

   • the flustering, vainglorious Greeks

• French: confondre, embrouiller, paumer
• German: verwirren, überrumpeln
• Russian: волнова́ть

fluster (plural flusters)

1. A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion.