Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being in a flutter; fluttering.
- adjective Nervous and excited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a flutter or commotion: agitated; fluttering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a flutter; agitated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective postpositive In a state of
excited anticipation orconfusion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective excited in anticipation
Etymologies
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Examples
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A couple of posters are all "aflutter" on the last thread.
The Hedgehog Report Dave 2010
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A couple of posters are all "aflutter" on the last thread.
The Hedgehog Report Dave 2010
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Apparently, Hollywood is still aflutter over Ricky Gervais's roasty hostdom of the Golden Globes, during which he did his best to insult every celebrity in...
The Art Of Satire: In Defense Of Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Hosting Gig boston.com 2011
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Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity.
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Apparently, Hollywood is still aflutter over Ricky Gervais's roasty hostdom of the Golden Globes, during which he did his best to insult every celebrity in the room, several who weren't in the room, and the not-famous-until-he-was-ruthlessly-mocked head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Art Of Satire: In Defense Of Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Hosting Gig boston.com 2011
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Apparently, Hollywood is still aflutter over Ricky Gervais's roasty hostdom of the Golden Globes, during which he did his best to insult every celebrity in the room, several who weren't in the room, and the not-famous-until-he-was-ruthlessly-mocked head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Art Of Satire: In Defense Of Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes Hosting Gig boston.com 2011
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Indeed, Mr. Kaufmann has achieved nothing less than outright stardom in recent years, especially at the Metropolitan Opera, where his every appearance sets legions of music-loving hearts aflutter.
The Smoldering Tenor David Mermelstein 2011
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Question: I, like so many Glee fans, am aflutter with worry over what will happen if/when the core group of students graduates.
Ask Matt: Emmy Reactions, Plus True Blood, Glee, and More! 2011
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It wasn't long before Mr. Rochester set her young heart aflutter: "for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too…."
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Seeing Madame Alberte in the window on cinema verite set my heart aflutter.
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