Flitting

Flitting
Flit Flit, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flitting}.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. {Fleet}, v. i.] 1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. [1913 Webster]

A shadow flits before me. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. [1913 Webster]

It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]

4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] --Wright. Jamieson. [1913 Webster]

5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. [1913 Webster]

And the free soul to flitting air resigned. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • Flitting — Flit ting, n. 1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering. [1913 Webster] 2. A removal from one habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Flitting — Flitt ing, Flytting Flytt ing, n. Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century. [Obs. or Scot.] These flytings consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • flitting — index transitory Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • flitting — Synonyms and related words: adrift, afloat, airborne, alternating, amorphous, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, circumforaneous, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, drifting, dying, eccentric,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • flitting — Cleveland Dialect List a removal from one place of residence to another …   English dialects glossary

  • flitting — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. transitory, ephemeral, evanescent; see fleeting , temporary …   English dictionary for students

  • flitting — n. act of moving house (English usage); strife (Scottish usage); flying lightly and rapidly flɪt n. quick light movement; fluttering; change of residence (Scottish); homosexual (derogatory) v. fly; flutter; dart; move quickly; change location;… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • flitting — a. Fleeting, evanescent, transient, transitory, passing, fugitive, ephemeral …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • flitting — adj 1. darting, flirting, skimming, fleeting, passing; fast, rapid, fleet, quick, brisk, meteoric, mercurial. 2. transient, transitory, momentary, ephemeral, shortlived, temporary, brief. 3. fluttering, flittering, flapping, beating, waving,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • flitting — /ˈflɪtɪŋ/ (say fliting) adjective moving lightly and swiftly; passing quickly; fluttering. –flittingly, adverb …  

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