fluster🔊

(transitive)

To throw (someone) into a state of confusion or panic; to befuddle, to confuse.

To make emotionally overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

# (by extension) To turn on, to make horny.

(dated) To make (someone) feel flushed and hot through drinking alcoholic beverages; also, to make (someone) slightly drunk or tipsy.

(intransitive)

To be agitated and confused; to bustle.

To become overwhelmed or visibly embarrassed, especially in a sexual or romantic context.

# (by extension) To become turned on, to become horny.

(dialectal) To catch attention; to be showy or splendid.

(obsolete) To boast or brag noisily; to bluster, to swagger.

(obsolete) Of a seed: to produce a shoot quickly.

A state of agitation or confusion; a flutter.

(obsolete)

A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.

(uncertain) Showiness, splendour.