Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To flutter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To scatter in pieces.
- noun One who flits.
- noun A small piece of anything, especially cloth; a shred; a tatter; a rag: generally in the plural: as, a garment torn all to flitters.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To flutter.
- noun A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
- transitive verb rare To flutter; to move quickly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to move about
rapidly andnimbly - verb to move quickly from one condition or location to another
- verb to
flutter orquiver - noun A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb move back and forth very rapidly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes.
Uncharted Stars Norton, Andre 1969
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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.
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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) 2009
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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.
Rabbi Jack Bemporad: 'What is God?' By Jacob Needleman Rabbi Jack Bemporad 2011
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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.
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Through the forest of blades banded demoiselles flitter, catching the sun.
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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.
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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.
Rabbi Jack Bemporad: 'What is God?' By Jacob Needleman Rabbi Jack Bemporad 2011
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An excellent phrase: “On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently”
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I looked a lot like Ellie Mae, except my chest was flat as a flitter.
Sex Ed With Barbie and GI Joe Julie Britt 2011
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