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FLUSTERING

Definition: FLUSTERING

FLUSTERING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Fluster

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLUSTERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

 

Crosswords: FLUSTERING

English words defined with "FLUSTERING": Flusteration. (references)
Etymologies containing "FLUSTERING": Fluster. (references)

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Modern Translation: FLUSTERING

Language Translations for "FLUSTERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

verwirrend (baffling, bemusing, bewildering, cluttering, cockamamie, confusing, deranging, disarranging, discombobulating, disheveling, disorienting, distractedly, distracting, disturbing, dizzying, involved, muddling, perplexing, puzzling, snarly, unsettling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

usteringflay.(various references)

   

Scottish

  

fraoileadh (a flustering by liquor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: FLUSTERING

Misspellings

"FLUSTERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Flestrin, Flutherin, flutring. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FLUSTERING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: lustering, resulting.

-2 letters: feltings, feruling, flingers, flutings, gruntles, gulfiest, gunfires, insulter, lustring, refusing, refuting, ringlets, rustling, sterling, tinglers.

-3 letters: eluting, engluts, engulfs, felting, figures, filters, fingers, flinger, fluster, fluters, flutier, fluting, fringes, fueling, fulgent, furling, fustier, glisten, glister, gluiest, glutens, gristle, gruntle, gulfier, gunfire, gunites, gurnets, gustier, gutsier, infuser, ingulfs, lifters, ligures, lingers.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-g-i-l-n-r-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: sulfureting.

 

+2 letters: centrifugals, rightfulness, sulfuretting.

 

+3 letters: filibustering, flugelhornist, frightfulness.

 

+4 letters: flugelhornists, rightfulnesses, sprightfulness.

 

+5 letters: fortunetellings, frightfulnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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