flittermouse
Noun

flittermouse (plural flittermice)

  1. (now, chiefly, dialectal) A bat; a reremouse; flindermouse.
    • 1894, Philip Stewart Robinson, Birds of the Wave and Woodland, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page ↗,
      The bats wheel overhead, their soft wings crumpling as they turn their somersaults, but never a voice in the air, save sharp needle-points of sound, as flittermouse calls to flittermouse.
    • 1969, Rayner Heppenstall, The Shearers, page 183 ↗,
      They don't bump into folk, blind people don't. They're like flittermice. You never saw two flittermice bump into each other.



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