• (British) IPA: /ˈflɪkə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈflɪkɚ/

flicker

1. An unsteady flash of light.

   the flicker of the dying candle

   the flicker of a poorly tuned television set

2. A short moment.

• French: papillotement, scintillement
• German: Flackern, Flimmern
• Italian: guizzo, tremolio
• Portuguese: bruxuleio
• Russian: мерца́ние
• Spanish: parpadeo

• Italian: fremito
• Russian: мгнове́ние

flicker (flickers, present participle flickering; past and past participle flickered)

1. (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year

     The shadows flicker to and fro.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].

2. (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Ch.3:

     There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.

   • 1915, T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

     I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker ...

3. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.

   • And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.

• French: vaciller, papilloter
• German: flackern, flimmern
• Italian: guizzare, tremolare
• Portuguese: tremular, bruxulear
• Russian: мерца́ть
• Spanish: parpadear, titilar

• French: scintiller
• Italian: sfarfallare
• Portuguese: piscar
• Russian: мига́ть
• Spanish: parpadear, titilar, centellear

flicker (plural flickers)

1. (US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.

• German: Goldspecht
• Russian: дя́тел

flicker (plural flickers)

1. One who flicks.

1. Surname