flitter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈflɪtɚ/|[ˈflɪɾɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fluttering movement
    — A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of fritter. Caribbean,Southern-US,alt-of,archaic,pronunciation-spelling
  3. A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
    — Without a flitter of a blanket o'er me
  4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genus Hyarotis.
  5. A small aircraft or spacecraft.
    — Then all three went out to the flitter. A tiny speedster, really; a torpedo bearing stubby wings and the ludicrous tail-surfaces, the multifarious driving-, braking-, side-, top-, and under-jets so characteristic of the tricky, cranky, but ultra-maneuverable breed.
  6. A small perceptible feeling
    — Hannah couldn't stop a flitter of panic at the thought.
动词 v.
  1. To scatter in pieces.
  2. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
  3. To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
    — How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old.
  4. To flutter or quiver.

词形变化

flitters present,singular,third-person flittering participle,present flittered participle,past flittered past flitters plural flitters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
flitter down flittermouse flittery

词源

词源 1
From Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (frequentative suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English flit
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English flitter
From flit + -er.
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