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Flitter   Listen
verb
Flitter  v. i.  To flutter. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Flitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... classify so long as the would-be systematist has no particularly definite ideas to guide him. The likeness of the Bat to a winged mouse has made itself felt in the name given to the creature in many languages, such as the "Chauvesouris" of the French and the "Flitter-mouse" of some parts of England, the latter being reproduced almost literally in German, Dutch, and Swedish, while the Danes called the Bat a "Flogenmues," which has about the same meaning, and the Swedes have a second name, "Laedermus," evidently referring to the ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various

... said he, "that you have somewhat restored yourself, will you be kind enough to tell me in what sort of crime I have become a partner? Are you murderer, smuggler, thief, or only the harmless and domestic moonlight flitter?" ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... rest, in solemn salvatory, Sealed from the moth and the owl and the flitter-mouse— Each with his name on his brow. 'All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Every one in his own ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow

... glorious total of ten thousand lovely loaves is let loose with nothin' missin' but the consumer's contented cackle as he eagerly eats! We even garnish each loaf with a generous gob of Gazoopis—our own ingenuous invention—before they finally flitter forth! Would you ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer



Words linked to "Flitter" :   quiver, waver, flicker, move back and forth, flutter



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