All 5 Uses
fluster
in
The Hobbit
(Edited)
- He did not remember things very well, unless he put them down on his Engagement Tablet: like this: Gandalf Tea Wednesday. Yesterday he had been too flustered to do anything of the kind.
p. 8.5 *flustered = nervous or confused
- It was not the correct thing to say, but they have begun to arrive had flustered him badly.
p. 9.4flustered = made nervous or confused
- "Hear, hear!" said Bilbo, and accidentally said it aloud.
"Hear what?" they all said turning suddenly towards him, and he was so flustered that he answered "Hear what I have got to say!"p. 25.9flustered = nervous or confused - "What message?" said poor Mr. Baggins all in a fluster.
p. 27.9fluster = nervous or confused condition
- But he could not remember anything better at the moment, he was so flustered by the egg-question.
p. 72.6flustered = nervous or confused
Definitions:
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(1)
(fluster) a state, or to cause a state, of nervous confusion or agitation
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)