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Aflutter

//əˈflʌt.ɚ// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fluttering.

    "I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;"

  2. 2
    Filled or covered (with something that flutters).

    "The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants,"

  3. 3
    In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.

    "[…] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow."

Adjective
  1. 1
    excited in anticipation wordnet

Etymology

From a- + flutter.

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