flitty
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AdjectiveEdit
flitty (comparative flittier, superlative flittiest)
- (archaic) unstable, fluttering
- Ostentatiously effeminate
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1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop.
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1999 December 24, Albert Williams, “Lean and Mean”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry. "
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2001 February 23, Albert Williams, “Springtime for Mel Brooks”, in Chicago Reader[3]:
- Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty "common-law assistant," Carmen Ghia.
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SynonymsEdit
(ostentatiously homosexual): camp
ReferencesEdit
- flitty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913