flit
/flɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.46 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fluttering or darting movement.
noun
verb
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
Example Sentences
- "I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent."
- "let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers."
- "My computer just had a flit."
- "The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway."
- "the low buzz of insects flitting over the flowers"
- "A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”). Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).
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Inflected Forms
flits (plural)
flits (present, singular)
flitting (participle, present)
flitted (participle, past)
flitted (past)
more flit (comparative)
most flit (superlative)