FLIT

flit

(noun) a secret move (to avoid paying debts); “they did a moonlight flit”

flit, dart

(noun) a sudden quick movement

flit, flutter, fleet, dart

(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; “The hummingbird flitted among the branches”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

flit (plural flits)

A fluttering or darting movement.

(physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.

(slang) A homosexual.

Verb

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)

To move about rapidly and nimbly.

To move quickly from one location to another.

(physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).

To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

Adjective

flit (comparative more flit, superlative most flit)

(poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

Anagrams

• ILTF, lift

Source: Wiktionary

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Flit, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] Etym: [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. Fleet, v. i.]

1. To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along. A shadow flits before me. Tennyson.

2. To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.

3. To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate. It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other. Hooker.

4. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Wright. Jamieson.

5. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved. And the free soul to flitting air resigned. Dryden.

Flit, a.

Definition: Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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