flutter

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Every fibre of his huge frame was replete with energy, and his heart beat strong, but it beat steadily; not a vestige of a flutter was there, for his head was clear and cool.

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  1. intransitive verb To wave or flap rapidly in an irregular manner: curtains that fluttered in the breeze.
  2. intransitive verb To fly by a quick light flapping of the wings.
  3. intransitive verb To flap the wings without flying.
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  • "There is a continuum in patients with AF / atrial flutter, they go in and out of congestive heart failure," the document said. —  theHeart.org
  • The New York Times put out this tepid hit piece on Sarah Palin, filled with the sorts of innuendoes that set liberal hearts a-flutter (some are already comparing her to Dick Cheney and the evil Bush administration). —  Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels
  • He also had an atrial flutter -- an irregular heartbeat. —  BizzyBlog
  • At last the little flame went out with hardly so much as a flutter, and the hope of the house of Dunklee was dissipated forever. —  The Holy Cross and Other Tales
  • Every fibre of his huge frame was replete with energy, and his heart beat strong, but it beat steadily; not a vestige of a flutter was there, for his head was clear and cool. —  Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade
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flicker ·  tremor ·  stir ·  rustle ·  twitch ·  quiver ·  tingle ·  murmur ·  throb ·  gasp ·  ripple ·  surge

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flutter:   fluttered ·  fluttering
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English floteren, from Old English floterian; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from MK. floteren, flutter, float, from Anglo-Saxon floterian, flotorian, flutter (once of the heart, otherwise only in glosses), flutter or fly before (Latin prævolare), float about (Latin fluctibus ferri), apparently a freq. verb formed from flotian, float, fleótan (past participle *floten), fleet, float. Cf. Low German fluttern, also fluddern, flutter, as a bird. Similar words of different origin are Old Dutch vlederen, vledderen = Old High German fledarōn, Middle High German vledern, vladern, German fladern, usually flattern, flutter, = Dutch fladderen, hover, English flatter, flitter, etc.: see flatter, flitter, flittermouse.
  2. from flutter, v.
 

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