"flustering" meaning in All languages combined

See flustering on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Forms: more flustering [comparative], most flustering [superlative]
Etymology: From fluster + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fluster|ing|id2=participial}} fluster + -ing Head templates: {{en-adj}} flustering (comparative more flustering, superlative most flustering)
  1. Agitated, confusing.
    Sense id: en-flustering-en-adj-nfZuRPcC
  2. (obsolete) Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-flustering-en-adj-ew9QdgWB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ing (participial), Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 77 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ing (participial): 19 53 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 76 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 9 82 9
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flusteringly

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈflʌstəɹɪŋ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation]
Etymology: From fluster + -ing. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|fluster|ing|id2=participial}} fluster + -ing Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} flustering
  1. present participle and gerund of fluster Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: fluster
    Sense id: en-flustering-en-verb-wuC4XDH0
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          "text": "To me it seems, Mabel, that whenever a thing is really grand and potent, it has a quiet majesty about it, that is altogether unlike the frothy and flustering manner of smaller matters, and so it was with them rapids.",
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          "ref": "2007, Frank Swinnerton, Coquette, READ BOOKS, page 39:",
          "text": "She almost forgot Toby while she was bathed in this flustering brilliance of light and noise.",
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