aflutter UK /əˈflʌt.ə/US /əˈflʌt.ɚ/ adjective3 •Fluttering.I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills — 1856 •In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.[…] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow. — 1880 •Filled or covered (with something that flutters).The day being warm and sultry, the balcony was all aflutter with the feather fans of the ladies of the family and their attendants, — 1891 formsmore aflutter · most aflutter