Sekirov Dictionary

flit

/flɪt/

verb 6
noun 5
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 1

verb6

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To move about rapidly and nimbly.
- A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […] — 1855
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To move quickly from one location to another.
- By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other. — 1597
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(dialect, UK) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
- After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence. — 1855
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To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
- My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.

noun5

A fluttering or darting movement.
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A sudden departure from a property.
- I did a flit, as the landlord was due to arrive to collect the rent.
- let's do a moonlight flit, if the loanshark catches us here tomorrow without the money to pay our debts, he'll break our fingers.
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(slang, old-fashioned) A homosexual.
- The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway. — 1951
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A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
- My computer just had a flit.
A flow control unit or flow control digit.

adjective1

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(literary, no longer used) Fast, nimble.
- And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held [...]. — 1590

forms

flitted · flitting · flits · more flit · most flit

Phrases with flit

moonlight flit
An act of secretly leaving premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon; hence, any act of escaping at night.

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