flitty

Adjective

flitty (comparative flittier, superlative flittiest)

1. (archaic) unstable, fluttering.
2. (slang) Ostentatiously effeminate.
   • The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 185
   • His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop.1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in Chicago Reader