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aflicker

aflicker adjective: flickering.

Adjective

aflicker (not comparable)

  1. Flickering.
    • with age are limbs a-shake / And force a-flicker!1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology,, Boston: James R.Osgood, page 202
    • the long cave of the fort dining room, with tall candles of buffalo tallow wildly aflicker, and fiddle bows sawing,1978, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, page 182

Adverb

aflicker (not comparable)

  1. Flickering.

Origin of aflicker

From a- + flicker.

Questions about aflicker

What does aflicker mean?
Aflicker means flickering.
What part of speech is aflicker?
Aflicker can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near aflicker in the dictionary

  1. aflavinine
  2. aflavinines
  3. AFLCA
  4. AFLG
  5. aflibercept
  6. aflicker
  7. aflight
  8. AFLNZ
  9. afloat
  10. aflood
  11. aflop

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