flustered adj.
drunk.
![]() | 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.]. | |
![]() | Eighth Liberal Science n.p.: [as 1635]. | |
![]() | 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]. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flustered. Drunk. | |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | in 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. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Memoirs of [...] Jane D****s 70: His lordship returned, extremely flustered with liquor. | |
![]() | Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 87: I begin to feel myself fluster’d already. | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Justified Sinner 5: [B]eing considerably flustered by drinking, and disposed to take all in good part [etc]. | |
![]() | Dict. Americanisms. | |
![]() | Sligo Champion 25 Aug. 6/1: You can be [...] ‘flustered,’ ‘tipsy,’ ‘top-heavy’. |