transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become nervous or upset.

noun. A state of agitation, confusion, or excitement.

noun. Confusion or embarrassment caused by surprise; mental confusion and excitement or perturbation; flurry.

To confuse; embarrass, as by a surprise; cause to flush and move or speak hurriedly and confusedly; flurry.

To confuse with drink; make hot and rosy with drinking; fuddle.

Synonyms To excite, disconcert, disturb, perturb, flurry, worry.

To become confused, as with drink; be fuddled; be flurried.

transitive verb. To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.

intransitive verb. To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

noun. Heat or glow, as from drinking; agitation mingled with confusion; disorder.

verb. To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.

verb. cause to be nervous or upset

noun. a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset

verb. be flustered; behave in a confused manner

"Perhaps Mr. Batty was a person of notable industry -- perhaps remarkable for always beings in a "fluster" -- perhaps the rural Paul Pry of his day and district."

flustered  flustering  

acquit  bear  behave  carry  comport  

Buster  Custer  adjuster  bluster  buster  

'want  astringency  blood poisoning  bobbery  botheration  

addle  addle the wits  ado  agitate  agitation  

flustered  flustering  flusters