fluster

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. (transitive) To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.
2. (transitive) To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
3. (broadly, transitive) To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
4. (dated, transitive) To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.
5. (intransitive) To be agitated and confused; to bustle.
6. (intransitive) To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
7. (broadly, intransitive) To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.
8. (British, dialectal, intransitive) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.
9. (intransitive, obsolete) To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

Noun

1. A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.
2. (obsolete) A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.
3. (obsolete) Showiness, splendour.

Sinónimos

confuse

agitation

flurry

upset

confusion

agitate

trouble

ruffle

perturbation

dismay

bustle

pother

disturbance

perplex

turmoil

annoy

bother

disconcert

disorganize

disorient

disorientation

disquiet

disrupt

disturb

dither

embarrassing

embarrassment

enervate

excite

excitement

faze

flush

flutter

hesitation

hurry

mystification

obfuscation

outbreak

perturb

petulance

puzzlement

rampage

restlessness

riot

row

ruction

rumpus

scrimmage

spurt

stew

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Traducións

verwirren

şaşırtmak

bocalamak

innervosire

confusión

bocalama

συγχίζω

agitare

agitazione

disordinare

agitación

confundir

inquietud

aufregen

verwarring

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈflʌstə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: *flostren

Relativo a islandés: flaustr

In summary

The verb is probably from Middle English *flostren, *flostre (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agitation; blustering”)) from a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language; compare Icelandic flaustr (“a bustle; a hurry”), flaustra (“to bustle”).
The noun is derived from the verb.