Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To flutter, as a bird; flicker; quiver.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To flutter, as a bird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
flutter as a bird - verb to
flicker ,quiver
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cam thrice taames thruf his casement, an 'flacker'd roond his feet.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Oh wait, the guy who seems to be corrupt and even Conn. voters were becoming aware that this guy was just an Obama flacker.
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Oh wait, the guy who seems to be corrupt and even Conn. voters were becoming aware that this guy was just an Obama flacker.
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Oh wait, the guy who seems to be corrupt and even Conn. voters were becoming aware that this guy was just an Obama flacker.
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The articles against Pianka were inadequately researched, loaded with dubious claims that are defamatory especially since it convinced at least one citizen to call the FBI to allege criminality – a clear measure that the content defamed and inaccurately so, in my opinion as a journalism graduate, journalist, flacker for government agencies that investigate wrongdoing, and lawyer.
"Harry Potter and the Seguin Gazette's Cheshire Cat" - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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I also use fatback, but I post my photos on flacker or pickleoso.
MySpace CEO DeWolfe Jabs Back At Yahoo’s Bartz (Video) Michael Arrington 2005
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Snow buntings, whistling swans, snow geese, ducks in myriads -- flacker and clacker and hold solemn conclave on the adjoining rocks, as though this were their realm from the beginning and for all time.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Ducks were winging in myriads and settling on the lake with noisy flacker.
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The flacker of wild-fowl overhead, the skim of ice forming on the lake, the poignant sting of the north wind -- all fore-warned winter's approach.
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Acadia and Quebec had come to anchorage on a land set like a jewel amid silver waters and green hills, but the Selkirk settlers have as yet seen only rocks barren of verdure as a billiard ball, vales amidst the domed hills of Hudson Straits, dank with muskeg, and silent as the very realms of death itself, but for the flacker of wild fowl, the roaring of the floundering {385} walrus herds, or the lonely tinkling of mountain streams running from the ice fields to the mossy valleys bordering the northern sea.
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