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- noun Plural form of
flitter-mouse .
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Examples
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She forgot even to be lonely, though the birds and butterflies were asleep and only the flitter-mice, the lantern-eyed owls, and other fly-by-nights were abroad.
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He then shut himself up in positive solitude, in which all the flitter-mice of _ennui_ soon came and nested, and he called work to his aid but in vain.
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841
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-- a phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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He ought to be locked away with the flitter-mice. "
The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North William MacLeod Raine 1912
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