flitter
/ˈflɪtɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.77 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
noun
noun
Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
noun
A small aircraft or spacecraft.
Example Sentences
- "How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old."
- "There were two bugs flittering on either side of her."
- "The back of the group flittered in and out of my view, pulling me forward with only dim hopes of success."
- "A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds."
- "Without a flitter of a blanket o'er me"
- "But to return to where we left her, I see her still, propped up in a kind of stupor against one of the walls in which this wretched edifice abounds, her long grey greasy hair framing in its cowl of scrofulous mats a face where pallor, languor, hunger, acne, recent dirt, immemorial chagrin and surplus hair seemed to dispute the mastery. Flitters of perforated starch entwine an ear."
Etymology
From Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (frequentative suffix).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: flytteren, flytja
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈflɪtɚ/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
flitter down
flat as a flitter