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Flitter
Definitions
- 1 A fluttering movement
"A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds."
- 2 Pronunciation spelling of fritter. Caribbean, Southern-US, alt-of, archaic, pronunciation-spelling
- 3 A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
"Without a flitter of a blanket o'er me"
- 4 Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
- 5 A small aircraft or spacecraft.
"Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed."
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- 6 A small perceptible feeling
"Hannah couldn't stop a flitter of panic at the thought."
- 1 To scatter in pieces.
- 2 move back and forth very rapidly wordnet
- 3 To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- 4 To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
"How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old."
- 5 To flutter or quiver.
Etymology
From Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (frequentative suffix).
From flit + -er.
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