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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flustered
adj
  1. thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
    Synonym(s): flustered, hot and bothered(p), perturbed, rattled
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fluster \Flus"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flustered}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Flustering}.] [Cf. Icel. flaustra to be flustered,
      flaustr a fluster.]
      To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to
      throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
  
               His habit or flustering himself daily with claret.
                                                                              --Macaulay.
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