Flittermouse

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A bat (a flying mammal). dialectal

    "I thank thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?"

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bat

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"The Swallow, the Sparrow, the Jay, the Jackdaw and the Bat (Flittermouse) fly around the house."

Etymology

From flitter + mouse (compare flickermouse, flindermouse), after Middle Dutch fleddermuys, vledermuys, vlermuys (Modern Dutch vleermuis), from vledderen, vlederen (“to flutter, float, hover”) + muys (“mouse”). Cognate with West Frisian flearmûs (“bat”), Middle Low German vledermūs (“bat”), German Fledermaus (“bat”), Swedish fladdermus (“bat”) and flädermus (“bat”). More at flitter, flutter, flatter, mouse.

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