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flickermouse

flickermouse is the obsolete form of flittermouse.

Meaning of flittermouse

Noun

flittermouse (plural flittermice)

  1. (dialectal) A bat (a flying mammal).
    • I thank thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?1891, Conway Lloyd Morgan, Animal sketches

Forms of flickermouse

pluralflickermice

Questions about flickermouse

What is flickermouse the obsolete form of?
Flickermouse is the obsolete form of flittermouse.

Words near flickermouse in the dictionary

  1. flickering
  2. flickeringly
  3. flickerings
  4. flickerless
  5. flickermice
  6. flickermouse
  7. flickers
  8. flickersome
  9. flickertail
  10. flickertail squirrel
  11. Flickertail State

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flickermouse (page history and authors); flittermouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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