flustration

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Noun[edit]

flustration

  1. (colloquial) The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry.
    • 1824, Regina Maria Roche, The Tradition of the Castle: Or, Scenes in the Emerald Isle:
      "I was in a fine flustration myself when I heard it ; and then to get so affronted as I did on account! [] "

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for flustration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)