flittering
English
editVerb
editflittering
- present participle and gerund of flitter
Noun
editflittering (plural flitterings)
- 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.