flittering
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]flittering
- present participle and gerund of flitter
Noun
[edit]flittering (plural flitterings)
- The motion of something that flitters.
- 1947, Wallace Stevens, “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”, in Transport to Summer:
- It is in this solitude, a syllable,
Out of these gawky flitterings,
Intones its single emptiness,
The savagest hollow of winter-sound.