flustrateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

flustrate (third-person singular simple present flustrates, present participle flustrating, simple past and past participle flustrated)

1. (colloquial) To fluster or frustrate.
   • 1712 October 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “THURSDAY, September 25, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 493; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume V, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     We were coming down Essex-street one Night a little flustrated, and I was giving him the Word to alarm the Watch

     The spelling has been modernized.

関連する語

• flustration

参照

• “flustrate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• lust after