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Definition of "flitter" []

  • To flutter. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "flitter" in a sentence
  • "The churned ground passing under the flitter was a nightmare of broken ridges, knife-sharp pinnacles, and pitted holes."
  • "I was a "flitter" of the first water, and after I had been in Fort Worth for a very short while I became possessed of a desire to see something of the far famed border towns along the Rio Grande frontier."
  • "An excellent phrase: “On Kite Hill, children flitter about like butterflies while their parents sit patiently”"