flittering

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English

Verb

flittering

  1. present participle and gerund of flitter

Noun

flittering (plural flitterings)

  1. 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.