flutteringn.
/ˈflʌtərɪŋ/ The action of flutter v. in various senses; an instance of the same.
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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 > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [noun] > types of pulsation
throb1597
fluttering1719
elevation1725
frequency1732
wallop1787
bradycardia1890
tricrotism1891
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms liv [lv]. 23 [22] He shal not ȝiue in to with oute ende flotering [L. fluctuationem] to the riȝt~wise.
14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 185 Drowned in þe floteryngis of þis lyfe.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 200 The Bates and Flutterings of a Conscience within.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 338 It is impossible to express..the Flutterings of my..Heart.
1749 R. Smith Harmonics vi. 119 The flutterings and the beats of a tempered consonance.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. iv. 256 No fluttering of manner, betrayed that he [etc.].
1842 Ld. Tennyson Miller's Daughter (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 110 I watch'd the little flutterings, The doubt my mother would not see.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
flutteringadj.
/ˈflʌtərɪŋ/ a. That flutters, in various senses of the verb.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering
flutteringc1374
flickeringa1544
bating1587
verberating1675
flopping1679
flapping1954
the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] > intermittent or irregular
chopping1483
wavering1488
interpolate1547
suspensive1575
off and on1583
remitting1583
intermissive1586
fluttering1590
aguisha1602
intermittent1603
irregular1608
broken1629
intermitting1643
serratile1707
serrine1707
scattering1709
serratic1753
now-and-then1762
remittent1791
fitful1810
non-periodic1836
spasmodic1837
startful1837
interlusory1853
heterochronic1854
heterochronous1854
between-whiles1859
snatchy1861
sporadic1861
spasmodical1864
catchy1869
pauseful1877
aperiodic1879
scratchy1881
nervy1884
spurty1894
off-again on-again1923
on-again off-again1946
on-off1949
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 > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > [adjective] > fluttering
fluskering1660
fluttering1762
aflutter1826
the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > pulsation > [adjective] > types of pulsation
slowa1398
stronga1398
throbbinga1450
systematical1658
long1671
natant1707
undose1707
vermiculose1707
exalted1742
salienta1791
inciduous1822
fluttering1834
sharp1843
sluggish1843
tricrotic1876
tricrotous1877
bounding1879
short1898
quadrigeminal1906
plateau1923
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered pulse or circulation > [adjective] > rapid pulse
sublated1647
frequent1707
running1821
fluttering1834
sharp1843
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. metr. ix. 68 To compowne werk of floterynge matere.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. O8 Vaineglorious man, when fluttring wind does blow In his light winges, is lifted vp to skye.
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. iv. xxviii. 43 That fluttering distinction..will not helpe.
1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 20 The flutt'ring sails expand.
1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales II. 315 The thick-heaved breath And..fluttering pulse of death.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xiii. 144 A large..mulberry-tree..was now sending its last fluttering leaves in at the open doorways.
b. Untidy. (Cf. flutter n. 2b.)
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > untidiness > [adjective] > of persons
sluttishc1405
slut?a1513
slovenly1548
slammerkin1742
flutteringc1830
c1830 M. M. Sherwood Houlston Tracts III. lxvii. 8 She would idle..and was very fluttering with her things.
Derivatives
ˈflutteringly adv. in a fluttering manner.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adverb]
feverishly1678
tremulously1736
nervously1816
flutteringly1819
flurriedly1834
1819 J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours (1820) 33 O'er her young more flutteringly to brood.
1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 278 Of old it came flutteringly through prophets.
1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington II. xi. 197 Mrs. Hawkshaw began flutteringly to apologise.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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