Other forms: flustered
To fluster is to make somebody nervous and confused. Easily flustered, don't fluster her, flustered by the question.
It is temporary and social — you are flustered in front of people, and it passes. The passive is far commoner than the active. The word probably came from a Scandinavian source and first meant to be agitated by drink.
1verbflusterTo make somebody nervous and confused.
“The interviewer's quick questions flustered her, and she started mixing up her words.”
fluster is a confusing.
Probably from a Scandinavian source; it first meant to be agitated, sometimes by drink.
Middle English
*flostren
English, today
fluster
Built from
The verb is probably from Middle English flostren (implied in flostring, flostrynge (“agitation; blustering”)) from a Scandinavian (gmq -) 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA