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beflutter

beflutter verb: to flutter around or about.

Verb

beflutter (third-person singular simple present beflutters, present participle befluttering, simple past and past participle befluttered)

  1. (intransitive) To flutter around or about.
  2. (transitive) To cause to flutter; fluster.
    • “Yes, my Lady,” answered the abigail; “only your Ladyship has quite befluttered me; I'm not drist to appear before your Ladyship.”1835, The new British Novelist
    • But I hate to leave you in rusty black, poring over these musty folios, and making all those dreadful rounds, squares, and triangles — those necromancing hideous figures, for hours together, while I am befluttering myself, [...]1836, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, Tales of the woods and fields

Forms of beflutter

third-person singular presentbeflutters
present participlebefluttering
past participlebefluttered
pastbefluttered

Origin of beflutter

From be- + flutter.

Questions about beflutter

What does beflutter mean?
Beflutter means to flutter around or about.
What part of speech is beflutter?
Beflutter is a verb.
What is the past tense of beflutter?
The past tense of beflutter is befluttered.

Words near beflutter in the dictionary

  1. beflowering
  2. beflowers
  3. befloxatone
  4. beflubutamid
  5. beflustered
  6. beflutter
  7. befly
  8. befo
  9. befo'
  10. befoam
  11. befoamed

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