beflutter
verbEtymology From be- + flutter.
1
To flutter around or about.
2
To cause to flutter; fluster.
- “Yes, my Lady,” answered the abigail; “only your Ladyship has quite befluttered me; I'm not drist to appear before your Ladyship.”1835, The new British Novelist
- But I hate to leave you in rusty black, poring over these musty folios, and making all those dreadful rounds, squares, and triangles — those necromancing hideous figures, for hours together, while I am befluttering myself, [...]1836, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Tales of the woods and fields:
1 more example
- I wish it may be any of their fortunes when between forty and forty-five they have been foolish enough to beflutter their spirits and senses with notions of second boyhood, [...]1841, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), Cecil, a peer: a sequel to Cecil, or, The adventures of a coxcomb: