Flustration, subs. (old and colloquial).—Heat; excitement; bustle; confusion; flurry (q.v.).
1771. Smollet, Humphrey Clinker, I., 126. Being I was in such a flustration.
1843. Major Jones’ Courtship, viii. The old woman’s been in a monstrous flustration ’bout the comet.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, etc., p. 177. My wife is in a delicut way, and the frite might cause a flustration.
1848. Jones, Studies of Travel, p. 21. The old woman was in such a flustration she didn’t know her lips from anything else.
1872. Mortimer 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. [[40]]
Flute, subs. (old).—1. The recorder of a corporation.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Tibia, a flute, a recorder, a pipe.
1690. B. E., New Dict. of the Canting Crew. Flute, c. The recorder of London or of any other town.
1785. Grose, Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.