fluskerv.
/ˈflʌskə/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. intransitive. To flutter or fly irregularly.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter
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flickerc1000
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flackerc1400
abatea1475
flack1567
bat1614
beata1616
flusker1660
flop1692
flap1776
flick1853
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > flutter
flickerc1000
flackerc1400
flitter1483
quitter1513
flack1567
fleck1567
flusker1660
flaffer17..
flit1700
skimmer1824
flutter1853
volitate1866
flurry1883
1660 [see fluskering n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1668 [see fluskering n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1796 [see fluskering n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 150 A blackbird, or thrush, That, started from sleep, flusker'd out of the bush.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 94 The crowing pheasant..fluskers up.
1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire Flusker..to fly irregularly, as nestlings taking their first purposeless flight.
2. transitive. To fluster, confuse. Only in passive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
bewhapec1320
mara1350
blunder?a1400
mada1425
to turn a person's brainc1440
astonish1530
maskc1540
dare1547
bemud1599
bedazea1605
dizzy1604
bemist1609
muddify1647
lose1649
bafflea1657
bewildera1680
bother?1718
bemuse1734
muddlea1748
flurrya1757
muzz1786
muzzle1796
flusker1841
haze1858
bemuddle1862
jitter1932
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1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 429 ‘Meetily flusker'd’.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 248 ‘I was so fluskered, I could not tell what to do’.
Derivatives
ˈfluskering n. and adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [noun] > confusion, bewilderment
astonishment1594
fluskering1660
amusement1663
fuzz1711
disconcertedness1752
disconcertion1754
disconcertment1759
bedazzlement1806
muzziness1814
bewilderment1819
flurrification1822
bedazement1888
disorientation1902
bemusement1907
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > [adjective] > causing confusion
astonishing1629
muddling1649
fluskering1660
disconcerting?1749
bewildering1792
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > fluttering
fluskering1660
fluttering1762
aflutter1826
1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vi. vi. 228 The offers and fluskerings, as I may so say, of the Faculties of the Soul of man.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. 48 What strange..fluskering conceits flie up into the youthful imagination of Hylobares.
1796 T. Gisborne Walks in Forest (ed. 2) iv. 69 Then with fluskering wings Broke forth.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 72 The fluskering pheasant took to wing.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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