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verb (used without object)
1.
to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along: bees flitting from flower to flower.
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to flutter, as a bird.
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to pass quickly, as time: hours flitting by.
4.
Chiefly Scot. and North England.
a.
to depart or die.
b.
to change one's residence.
verb (used with object)
5.
Chiefly Scot. to remove; transfer; oust or dispossess.
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Flitted
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noun
6.
a light, swift movement; flutter.
7.
Scot. and North England. a change of residence; instance of moving to a new address.
8.
Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a male homosexual.
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Word Origin & History
flit
c.1200, flutten "convey, move, take," perhaps from O.N. flytja "cause to fit," from P.Gmc. *flotojan (see float).
EXPAND"Theire desire ... is to goe to theire newe masters eyther on a Tewsday, or on a Thursday; for ... they say Munday flitte, Neaver sitte." [1641]Related: Flitted; flitting.
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