subs. (old and colloquial).—Heat; excitement; bustle; confusion; FLURRY (q.v.).
1771. SMOLLETT, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, I., 126. Being I was in such a FLUSTRATION.
1843. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Courtship, xvii. The old woman, who’s been in a monstrous FLUSTRATION bout the comet.
1847. W. T. PORTER, ed., A Quarter Race in Kentucky, etc., p. 177. My wife is in a delicut way, and the frite might cause a FLUSTRATION.
1848. W. T. THOMPSON, Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel, p. 21. The old woman was in such a FLUSTRATION she didn’t know her lips from any thing else.
1872. M. COLLINS, Two Plunges for a Pearl, vol. II., ch. vii. Then was this pretty little actress whom he admired in a great state of FLUSTRATION.
