Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To flutter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To scatter in pieces.
- n. A small piece of anything, especially cloth; a shred; a tatter; a rag: generally in the plural: as, a garment torn all to flitters.
- n. A minute square of thin metal, used in decoration; collectively, a quantity of such squares.
- To flutter.
- To hang or droop.
- To flutter; move rapidly backward and forward.
- n. One who flits.
Wiktionary
- v. to move about rapidly and nimbly
- v. to move quickly from one condition or location to another
- v. to flutter or quiver
- n. A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To flutter.
- v. rare To flutter; to move quickly.
- n. A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
WordNet 3.0
- v. move back and forth very rapidly
Etymologies
- [Middle English flitten, from Old Norse flytja, to carry about, convey; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.] (Wiktionary)
- Frequentative of flit. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes.”
“I was a "flitter" of the first water, and after I had been in Fort Worth for a very short while I became possessed of a desire to see something of the far famed border towns along the Rio Grande frontier.”
“An excellent phrase: “On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently””
“On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently under perfectly blue skies, pleasantly oblivious to the shouts of joy and rings of laughter.”
“As a concept, it can easily flitter away, since it has no grounding through a transformative search; note, not a search for transformation but a transforming search; not where the end result is clear beforehand and one only has to find the best means, but a transforming search.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Jack Bemporad: 'What is God?' By Jacob Needleman
“I looked a lot like Ellie Mae, except my chest was flat as a flitter.”
“Through the forest of blades banded demoiselles flitter, catching the sun.”
“I can't count the number of times I've heard people say, "I don't read science fiction" while clutching a Michael Crichton novel, and I've heard "I don't read fantasy" from a zillion teenagers who inevitably flitter off to the stores when a new Twilight book hits the stands.”
MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1)
“Being Dead cannot be locked into one specific genre, but seems to flitter over them all, one minute taking you to the horrors of their deaths and decay, the next dabbling in the moving love story that kept them together for so long.”
“ Their mothers might just leave the nest, fly out above and flitter off.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flitter’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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ghost
This is Ghost List 2 ( the kind that go 'boo!' ) :P
( open list )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/macabrephantom, spectral, specter, spectre, spooky, poltergeist, haunt, spirit, banshee, cryptic, shadow, phantasm and 311 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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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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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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paul's Words
flitter, misogyny, misanthropy, sebaceous, ulnar, limbo, consonant, sickle, ravenous, engorge, succulent, consummate and 23 more...
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