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flitsome

flitsome adjective: characterised or marked by flitting.

Adjective

flitsome (comparative more flitsome, superlative most flitsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by flitting
    • A target too flitsome for the other birds, it was an immense success with verdin who clung to it masterfully upside down and not a bit uneasy on that gyrating world, taking his fill and all the while full of warnings to potential intruders, giving vent to an intermittent and extremely loud...1957, Douglas Rigby, Desert happy
    • Unflagging spider versus flitsome moth [...]2011, Norman Hadley, Stinging the Sepia

Forms of flitsome

comparativemore flitsome
superlativemost flitsome

Origin of flitsome

From flit + -some.

Questions about flitsome

What does flitsome mean?
Flitsome means characterised or marked by flitting.
What part of speech is flitsome?
Flitsome is an adjective.

Words near flitsome in the dictionary

  1. flited
  2. flites
  3. fliting
  4. flitings
  5. flits
  6. flitsome
  7. flitt
  8. flitted
  9. flitten
  10. flitter
  11. flitter-mice

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