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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
  2. v. To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
  3. n. A fluttering or darting movement.
  4. n. Informal An empty-headed, silly, often erratic person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To remove (a thing) from one place to another; transport; shift.
  2. To turn; move; set in motion.
  3. To remove or dispossess.
  4. 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.
  5. To remove from one habitation to another.
  6. 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.
  7. To flutter, as a bird.
  8. n. A flitting: removal.
  9. Nimble; swift.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A fluttering or darting movement.
  2. n. physics A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
  3. n. slang A homosexual.
  4. v. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
  5. v. To move quickly from one location to another.
  6. v. physics To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
  7. v. informal To move house (especially a sudden move to avoid debts).
  8. adj. poetic, obsolete Fast, nimble.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet
  2. v. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
  3. v. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
  4. v. Scot. & Prov. Eng. To remove from one place or habitation to another.
  5. v. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
  6. adj. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See fleet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
  2. n. a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
  3. n. a sudden quick movement

Etymologies

  1. From Old Norse flytja ("to move"). Cognate with Swedish: flytta, Danish/Norwegian: flytte, Faroese: flyta. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English flitten, from Old Norse flytja, to carry about, convey. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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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

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