Green’s Dictionary of Slang

flustered adj.

[17C SE fluster, to make half-tipsy]

drunk.

[UK]T. Heywood The drunkard 60: No man must call a Good-fellow Drunkard [...] But if at any time they spie that defect in another, they may without any forfeit or just exceptions taken, say, He is Foxt, He is Flaw’d, He is Fluster’d [etc.].
[UK]Eighth Liberal Science n.p.: [as 1635].
[Ire]Head Canting Academy (2nd edn) n.p.: No man ought to call a Good-fellow a Drunkard; but [...] he may without a forfeit say he is [...] fluster’d.
Commonwealth of Women Prologue: Another to compleat his daily task, fluster’d with claret, seizes on a mask [F&H].
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flustered. Drunk.
[UK]R. Steele Tatler No. 3 n.p.: I [...] therefore take this publick Occasion, to admonish a Young Nobleman, who came fluster’d into the Box last Night.
[UK] in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy ii 261: When I vext proud Celia just come from my glass, / She tells me I’m flustered, and look like an ass.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Fielding Tom Jones (1959) 491: The uncle, who was a very great lover of the bottle, had so well plyed his nephew, that this latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered.
[UK]Memoirs of [...] Jane D****s 70: His lordship returned, extremely flustered with liquor.
[UK]Foote Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 87: I begin to feel myself fluster’d already.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[Scot]J. Hogg Justified Sinner 5: [B]eing considerably flustered by drinking, and disposed to take all in good part [etc].
[US]Bartlett Dict. Americanisms.
[Ire]Sligo Champion 25 Aug. 6/1: You can be [...] ‘flustered,’ ‘tipsy,’ ‘top-heavy’.