different between fluster vs flusteration

English

Etymology

From a Scandinavian (North Germanic) language, akin to Icelandic flaustra (“to be flustered”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fl?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Verb

fluster (third-person singular simple present flusters, present participle flustering, simple past and past participle flustered)

1. (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
2. (by extension) To confuse; befuddle; throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.

3. (intransitive) To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.

   • the flustring, vain-glorious Greeks

Derived terms

• flustered (adjective)
• flustering (adjective, present participle)

Translations

Noun

fluster (plural flusters)

1. A state of being flustered; overwrought confusion.

Anagrams

• RESTful, fluters, furtles, restful

English

Etymology

From fluster +? -ation.

Noun

flusteration (countable and uncountable, plural flusterations)

1. (colloquial, dated) The state of being flustered; agitation.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 78:

     Bless me! said she, how soon these fine young ladies will be put into flusterations!