flustering

adj

1. Agitated, confusing.

   “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.”

   “There is always a flustering breeze in the air and a perturbation generally through the county when they come or go, […]”

   “Although at times my prac experiences were flustering and frustrating, I have gained many new insights into catering for the individual needs of children.”

   “There is nothing more flustering than to wrestle with an unfamiliar piece of equipment in the presence of a class!”

   “She almost forgot Toby while she was bathed in this flustering brilliance of light and noise.”

2. (obsolete)Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.

   “And the Apoſtle [Paul] ſeems here moſt peculiarly to have directed this Encomium of the Gospel, as a Defiance to the Philoſophers of his Time, the Fluſtring Vain-glorious Greeks, vvho pretended ſo much to magnify, and even Adore the VViſdom they profeſſed, […]”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fluster