Flitting

Word FLITTING
Character 8
Hyphenation flitt ing flit ting
Pronunciations /ˈflɪtɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Flitting"

What do we mean by flitting?

To move about rapidly and nimbly.

To move quickly from one location to another.

To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.

To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).

To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Flitting

The word "flitting" in example sentences

Now which kind of thing can't be kept under wraps since it was witnessed by many people who wasted no time in flitting along a word to a tabloids. ❋ Admin (2009)

Mallory herself speaks to the reader from death, her spirit flitting from the official inquest into the disaster to the informal, parallel inquest held in Kleindeustchland, or Little Germany, which seeks to hold Dustin responsible. ❋ Roger Sutton (2006)

Twenty or so Secret Service agents; an equal number of PR assistants flitting from the main cabin to the front cabin, which has been fitted out for Kerry. ❋ Bernard-Henri L (2005)

The sergeant was stiff, his expression flitting between anger and what looked to Gunnar like fear. ❋ Unknown (2003)

See yourself borne upon the shoulders of all, and your name flitting through their mouths, and manifest yourself such that you may be deemed worthy of your race, worthy of the City, worthy of our choice, worthy of the ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

Soon, you are in all the worry of what in Scotland we call a flitting: the house and all its belongings are turned upside down. ❋ Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1862)

We have gone up the bank now a few yards to the cargo boat and installed ourselves in it with our luggage -- a very easy "flitting" -- and we find the cargo steamer just as perfectly comfortable as the mail boat we have left -- cabins, mess table, promenade on the upper deck in the bows. ❋ Unknown (1900)

He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from ❋ Unknown (2004)

She looked up at me, a strange expression flitting back and forth across her face. ❋ Lindsay, Jeff (2004)

"Yes," replied Diana, an odd expression flitting across her face. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)

Oswyn deliberated for a moment, with a curious expression flitting over his face, biting his lip and frowning slightly, as he gazed at the fireplace, where Rainham's long-cherished letters from Eve and ❋ Arthur Moore (1909)

He had intended to signify that had they lived together for a week at Guestwick the idea of flitting from Allington might possibly have been abandoned. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

"They will pay, I am certain they will pay," he said, a triumphant expression flitting across his troubled, peevish countenance. ❋ Unknown (1843)

Here in Scotland we'd say "flitting" it can be a noun or a verb. ❋ Unknown (2005)

On our way we passed a large hydropathic establishment and an asylum not quite completed, and on reaching Melrose we called at one of the inns for tea, where we read a description by Sir Walter of his "flitting" from ❋ Robert Naylor (N/A)

There are many good passages; the opening is (as nearly always with M. Fabre) excellent; but both the parts and the whole are, once more, too long -- the mere "flitting" from one parish to another seems never to be coming to an end. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

And then I was glad to divert his attention by proposing to go and inspect Mount Eaton, as soon as he had had some much-needed food, since Prometesky was out, and we at once plunged into the "flitting" affairs, glad in them to stifle some of the pain that Eustace had given, but on which we neither of us would dwell. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)

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