1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 3. I … therefore take this public occasion to admonish a young Nobleman, who came flustered into the box last night.
1748. T. Dyche, Dict. (5th ed.) Flustered (a) … somewhat intoxicated with liquor.
1750. Fielding, Tom Jones, bk. XIV., ch. ix. This latter, though not drunk, began to be somewhat flustered.
1779. The Mirror, No. 57. All of them flustered, some of them perfectly intoxicated.
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
Flusticated, or Flustrated, ppl. adj. (old and colloquial).—Confused; in a state of heat or excitement. Cf., Flustered.
1712. Spectator, No. 493. We were coming down Essex Street one night a little flustrated.
1766. Colman, Cland. Marriage V., in works (1777) i. 271. Your mind is too much flustrated, and you can neither eat nor drink.
1843. Maj. Jones’ Courtship, I. Somehow I was so flustrated that I tuk the rong way.
1847. Porter, Big Bear, &c., p. 98. I sot down, being sorter flusticated like, thinkin’ of that skrape, last time I was there.