flittering

English

Verb

flittering

1. present participle and gerund of flitter

Noun

flittering (plural flitterings)

1. The motion of something that flitters.
   • 1947, Wallace Stevens, “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”, in Transport to Summer:

     It is in this solitude, a syllable,
     Out of these gawky flitterings,
     Intones its single emptiness,
     The savagest hollow of winter-sound.