flitt

Verb

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)

1. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
   • the low buzz of insects flitting over the flowers
2. 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, Richard Hooker, chapter 5, in Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
3. To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
   • My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.
4. (UK, dialectal) 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, Anthony Trollope, The Warden, →ISBN, page 199
5. To move a tethered animal to a new grazing location.
6. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
   • the free soul to flitting air resign'd1697, Virgil, “The Tenth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC

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