flap
verb (used without object)
to swing or sway back and forth loosely, especially with noise.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"I am flapping my wings," said Chippy, who stood by himself; "but I can't jump any better than I could before."
From McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition by William Holmes McGuffey