# fluster

> English word · Verb · IPA /ˈflʌstə/

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

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

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fluster