darting

English

Adjective

darting (comparative more darting, superlative most darting)

1. Characterized by sudden, quick movements.
   • 1905, Joseph Isaac Spadafora Whitaker, The Birds of Tunisia, page 221:

     Its flight is fairly swift, and at times very darting or jerky.

   • 1989, James Tyler Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, page 429:

     Violent darting pains in the head preventing sleep.

   • 2012, Jessica Stirling, The Haldanes:

     Stella was very quick, very darting.

Derived terms

• dartingly
• dartingness

 

Verb

darting

1. present participle and gerund of dart

Noun

darting (plural dartings)

1. A motion or gesture that darts.
   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:

     During this period, a different set of abnormal mouth-movements made their appearance: forced protrusions of the lips, propulsion of the tongue, and occasional choreic dartings of the tongue.

   • 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:

     Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.

Anagrams

• nigtard, trading