Green’s Dictionary of Slang

flustered adj.

drunk.

1650		Eighth Liberal Science n.p.: 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, He is Suttle, Cupshot, Cut in the Leg or Back, He hath seen the French King, He hath swallowed an Hair or a Taven-Token, he hath whipt the Cat, He hath been at the Scriveners and learned to make Indentures, He hath bit his Grannam, or is bit by a Barn Weasel.
1674		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.
1686		Commonwealth of Women Prologue: Another to compleat his daily task, fluster’d with claret, seizes on a mask [F&H].
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Flustered. Drunk.
1709		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.
1719		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.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1749		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.
1761		Memoirs of [...] Jane D****s 70: His lordship returned, extremely flustered with liquor.
1770		Foote Lame Lover in Works (1799) II 87: I begin to feel myself fluster’d already.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1824		J. Hogg Justified Sinner 5: [B]eing considerably flustered by drinking, and disposed to take all in good part [etc].
1848		Bartlett Dict. Americanisms.
1951		Sligo Champion 25 Aug. 6/1: You can be [...] ‘flustered,’ ‘tipsy,’ ‘top-heavy’.