flit
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
to flutter, as a bird.
to pass quickly, as time: hours flitting by.
Chiefly Scot. and North England.
to depart or die.
to change one's residence.
Chiefly Scot. to remove; transfer; oust or dispossess.
a light, swift movement; flutter.
Scot. and North England. a change of residence; instance of moving to a new address.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a gay man.
Origin of flit
1synonym study For flit
Other words from flit
- flit·ting·ly, adverb
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How to use flit in a sentence
Second, he was to be seen flitting in and out of London Airport wearing beads and baggy white trousers.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers | Nik Cohn | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was like some comedic humming bird, flitting from Megan Mullally to Eric McCormack to Debra Messing.
The Failure of ‘Sean Saves the World’ Is Epically Disappointing | Kevin Fallon | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe first appears onscreen in the late 1950s, flitting around the breakfast table in a negligee.
Oprah Winfrey’s Fashion Evolution in ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ | Isabel Wilkinson | August 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe spent his 20s flitting from one beautiful woman to the next, often to the benefit of his own career.
Whitney Houston’s Final Romance: Was Ray J Using Her for Reality TV? | Ramin Setoodeh | February 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTGreenblatt will turn a young 68 in a few months, and the last thing on his ebullient, flitting mind is death.
The cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsSilently the turnkey passes the cell, like a flitting mystery casting its shadow athwart a troubled soul.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanAs I was standing at a window with Hugh in my arms, I saw the two lights come flitting down the valley together.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretThe lesser one remained flitting about the house, or to and fro between here and Antelope Butte.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral | John Dunloe CarteretScudding clouds were seen flitting across the sky, from which there descended now and then misty showers of rain.
Rollo in Holland | Jacob Abbott
British Dictionary definitions for flit
/ (flɪt) /
to move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
to fly rapidly and lightly; flutter
to pass quickly; fleet: a memory flitted into his mind
Scot and Northern English dialect to move house
British informal to depart hurriedly and stealthily in order to avoid obligations
an informal word for elope
the act or an instance of flitting
slang, mainly US a male homosexual
British informal a hurried and stealthy departure in order to avoid obligations (esp in the phrase do a flit)
See moonlight flit
Origin of flit
1Derived forms of flit
- flitter, noun
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