Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- v. To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
- n. A fluttering or darting movement.
- n. Informal An empty-headed, silly, often erratic person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To remove (a thing) from one place to another; transport; shift.
- To turn; move; set in motion.
- To remove or dispossess.
- To move along, about, or away; remove from a place or from point to point: go off or about: generally with an implication of suddenness, swiftness, or brevity of movement.
- To remove from one habitation to another.
- To move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, skim, or scud along: as, a bird flits from tree to tree; a cloud flits across the moon.
- To flutter, as a bird.
- n. A flitting: removal.
- Nimble; swift.
Wiktionary
- n. A fluttering or darting movement.
- n. physics A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
- n. slang A homosexual.
- v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- v. To move quickly from one location to another.
- v. physics To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
- v. informal To move house (especially a sudden move to avoid debts).
- adj. poetic, obsolete Fast, nimble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet
- v. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
- v. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
- v. Scot. & Prov. Eng. To remove from one place or habitation to another.
- v. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
- adj. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See fleet.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- n. a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
- n. a sudden quick movement
Etymologies
- From Old Norse flytja ("to move"). Cognate with Swedish: flytta, Danish/Norwegian: flytte, Faroese: flyta. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English flitten, from Old Norse flytja, to carry about, convey. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You'll see my name flit by at 0:40 during the first installment.”
“These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" -- that is, run blurringly fast.”
“These vampires are characterized by their ability to "flit" - that is, run blurringly fast.”
“Was it fancy, or did a new expression flit over John’s face at her words? — a kind of hope look out of his eyes?”
“But then I watch Vera dance and see that transported but yet wise expression flit across her face.”
“He glanced at me, and I thought I saw a pleased expression flit across his face.”
“Looking at Chloe as he spoke he saw a strange expression flit across her face.”
“The light in the room was dim and subdued, or Jean d'Alberg would have noticed a strange expression flit across Honor's face at the mention of this news, but the turned down light protected her.”
“A captive free is a regular wild bird: once given a chance to flit, that is enough -- you can never get hold of him again.”
“She had seen a faintly doubtful expression flit rapidly across his face, and noticed that Mr. Crayford was already surrounded.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flit’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
related:
http://www.wordnik.com...hurry, run, scamper, skip, stride, stampede, trample, scramble, dart, spring, spin, sprint and 141 more...
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Gesundheit
Words that sound like sneezes
zucchini, zoology, wysiwyg, woodchuck, withhold, wichita, vacuum, twelfth, syzygy, synchronous, swatch, supersede and 120 more...
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Phonestheme: FL-, the Thing with Wings
Grateful credit to http://reocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9783/phond1.html.
flutter, flap, fly, flow, flit, float, flitter, flurry, Aeroflot, flighty, fleet, Flugzeug and 3 more...
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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Put your best pace forward
Locomotion, movement, mobility et al
jackrabbit start, frenetic pace, glacial pace, canter, traipse, mosey along, shuffle, trot, roaring start, slug-like, ploddingly, flit and 26 more...
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Words from Moby Dick
frigate, presumptuous, genteel, succor, hearthstone, gentry, factitious, bilious, insurgent, portent, enervate, genuflect and 303 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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kalidas's Words
crepuscular, mellifluous, ephemeral, diaphanous, zeitgeist, geisterfahrer, infinite, eternal, idyllic, azure, reminiscent, oblivion and 521 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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Don Martin
Sound affects by the ridiculous cartoonist Don Martin
toob, tweeb, sklishk, kachunk-kachunka-..., ging, zap, zap-pow, thwizzit!, zzzzzz, sploydoing, shlik, plablablabl and 213 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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pixistix's Words
cumquat, circumlocution, panoply, propinquity, contumely, quietus, fardel, tmesis, tipsy, giddy, trudge, vortex and 211 more...
Tweets
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Noelle Knight "I'd have to flit from door to door to use the bathroom." -Club Dead, by Charlaine Harris Feb 5, 2011