Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flitting or rapid movement; a flying with lightness and darting motions; a fluttering.
- n. A removal from one habitation to another.
- n. Household effects in the course of removal from one place to another.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of flit.
- n. Scotland The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
- n. Scot. & Prov. Eng. A removal from one habitation to another.
- n. Obs. or Scot. Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century.
Etymologies
- From flit + -ing. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Now which kind of thing can't be kept under wraps since it was witnessed by many people who wasted no time in flitting along a word to a tabloids.”
“Mallory herself speaks to the reader from death, her spirit flitting from the official inquest into the disaster to the informal, parallel inquest held in Kleindeustchland, or Little Germany, which seeks to hold Dustin responsible.”
“Twenty or so Secret Service agents; an equal number of PR assistants flitting from the main cabin to the front cabin, which has been fitted out for Kerry.”
“The sergeant was stiff, his expression flitting between anger and what looked to Gunnar like fear.”
“See yourself borne upon the shoulders of all, and your name flitting through their mouths, and manifest yourself such that you may be deemed worthy of your race, worthy of the City, worthy of our choice, worthy of the”
“Soon, you are in all the worry of what in Scotland we call a flitting: the house and all its belongings are turned upside down.”
“We have gone up the bank now a few yards to the cargo boat and installed ourselves in it with our luggage -- a very easy "flitting" -- and we find the cargo steamer just as perfectly comfortable as the mail boat we have left -- cabins, mess table, promenade on the upper deck in the bows.”
“He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from”
“She looked up at me, a strange expression flitting back and forth across her face.”
“Yes," replied Diana, an odd expression flitting across her face.”
Lists
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Fancy Frills
Words I might not use in day to day language..
condescending, belligerent, antepenultimate, impasse, agonistic, decrepit, cathartic., Evanesce, dog ear, uber, gibber, audacious and 4 more...
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influx / movement
infusion, intromission, introduction, influence, power, inflow, influx, accession, concourse, accumulation, outlay, emigration and 28 more...
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Short-Lived
evanescent, transient, ephemeral, impermanent, fugacious, flitting
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Nidhi Jain Example: That day he had been flitting thorough his old photographs with her. Sep 12, 2011