flitting
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈflɪtɪŋ/
- present participle of flit#English|flit
flitting (plural flittings)
- The motion of something that flits.
- the flittings of birds
- 1845, Dublin University Magazine (volume 25, page 39)
- The hare lends its form to the witch for her twilight flittings and scuddings to the place of some unhallowed rendezvous.
- (Scotland, northern England) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 87:
- Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting.
- 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 87:
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