Flacker

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To flutter like a bird. intransitive

    "And the cherubins flackered with their wings."

  2. 2
    To flicker; to quiver. intransitive

Example

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"And the cherubins flackered with their wings."

Etymology

From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), from Old English *flacorian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakurōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter”), related to Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”). Sometimes regarded as a frequentative, equivalent to flack + -er (frequentative suffix). Akin to Middle Dutch flakkeren (“to flicker, waver”), German flackern (“to flare, flicker, flutter”), Icelandic flökra (“to flutter”), Icelandic flakka (“to rove about”), Old English flacor (“flying, fluttering”). See also flack, flicker.

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