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单词 flacker
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flackerv.

/ˈflakə/
Etymology: Middle English flakeren (possibly representing Old English *flacorian ; compare flacor adjective, flying, fluttering, and flicorian flicker v.), corresponding to Middle Dutch flackeren , Old Norse flǫkra to flutter (Danish flagre ), Middle High German vlackern (modern German flackern ) to flicker; a frequentative < the onomatopoeic stem flak- : see flack v.1The Old High German flagorôn, Flemish vlaggheren (Kilian) to flutter, may be compared as parallel onomatopoeic formations.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. intransitive. To flap, flutter, throb; esp. of birds, to flap the wings, to fly flutteringly. In modern dialect also transitive. To flap (the wings) ( Whitby Gloss.).
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > flap or flutter
fluttera1000
flickerc1000
bate1398
fanc1400
flackerc1400
abatea1475
flack1567
bat1614
beata1616
flusker1660
flop1692
flap1776
flick1853
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > pulsate [verb (intransitive)]
beatc1200
quopa1382
quavea1387
flack1393
flackerc1400
whopc1440
flicker1488
throb1788
pulse1851
pulsate1861
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > flutter
flickerc1000
flackerc1400
flitter1483
quitter1513
flack1567
fleck1567
flusker1660
flaffer17..
flit1700
skimmer1824
flutter1853
volitate1866
flurry1883
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1410 Foles in foler flakerande bitwene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. vi. A From aboue flakred the Seraphins.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xviii. 321 As two Birds, that are flackering, and flying at the two ends of a threed.
1785 W. Hutton Bran New Wark (E.D.S.) 75 How strangely the mind of man flackers and flounces?
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (at cited word) ‘Ther was a lot o' bods altegither, and didn't they flacker, mun, when Ah let gun off amang em?’
2. = flatter v.2 Obsolete. rare. (Perhaps a corrupt reading; cf. however the similar sense of flicker v.)
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (transitive)]
flatter?c1225
flackera1250
slickc1250
blandishc1305
blandc1315
glozec1330
beflatter1340
curryc1394
elkena1400
glaverc1400
anointa1425
glotherc1480
losenge1480
painta1513
to hold in halsc1560
soothe1580
smooth1584
smooth1591
soothe1601
pepper1654
palp1657
smoothify1694
butter1700
asperse1702
palaver1713
blarney1834
sawder1834
soft-soap1835
to cock up1838
soft-solder1838
soother1842
behoney1845
soap1853
beslaver1861
beslobber1868
smarm1902
sugar1923
sweetmouth1948
smooth-talk1950
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 100 Men..ðet flakereð [?c1225 Cleo. flattereð; a1250 Titus faltreð] hire of freolac.

Derivatives

ˈflackering n. and adj.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > fluttering or flickering
fluttering1382
wavering?a1400
flackeringc1440
playing1601
playa1628
flickering1875
upflutter1929
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > fluttering or flickering
flutteryc1386
ventilous1484
wavering1488
flaffinga1522
flittering1549
flackering1567
flickeringa1586
fluttering1590
whiffling1765
fluttered1773
aflicker1842
flickery1893
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > pulsation > [noun]
throbbing1573
beatinga1616
pulse1657
pulsation1658
flaffing1828
flackering1855
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxvi. 100 Þe Faucon seynge this, makethe a flakeryng with his wynges.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 101v Within the compasse of this pond great store of Oysyers grew..and flackring Flags.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 58 A flackering at the heart.
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