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What (who) is Flutter - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Flutter (disambiguation); Flutter (film); Flutter (company)
flutter
(flutters, fluttering, fluttered)
1.
If something thin or light flutters, or if you flutter it, it moves up and down or from side to side with a lot of quick, light movements.
Her chiffon skirt was fluttering in the night breeze.
...a butterfly fluttering its wings.
...the fluttering white lace handkerchief.
VERB: V, V n, V-ing
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Flutter is also a noun.
...a flutter of white cloth.
N-COUNT
2.
If something light such as a small bird or a piece of paper flutters somewhere, it moves through the air with small quick movements.
The paper fluttered to the floor...
The birds were active, whirring and fluttering among the trees.
VERB: V adv/prep, V
3.
If you have a flutter, you have a small bet on something such as a horse race. (BRIT INFORMAL)
I had a flutter on five horses.
= bet
N-COUNT: oft N on n
flutter
I. v. n.
1.
Hover, flap the wings quickly.
2.
Flap, move rapidly, flirt.
3.
Tremble, palpitate, beat or move tremulously.
4.
Flaunt, make a show, make a parade, cut a dash, be ostentatious.
5.
Fluctuate, waver, oscillate, vacillate, be fickle, be inconstant, be unsteady, be in doubt or uncertainty.
II. n.
1.
Agitation, tremor, quick motion.
2.
Confusion, hurry, commotion, agitation, excitement, perturbation, flurry, fluster, hurry-skurry.
Flutter
·vt To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
II. Flutter ·noun Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
III. Flutter ·vt To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
IV. Flutter ·noun The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
Examples of use of Flutter
1. The white flags of the Taliban flutter above government buildings.
2. Was that the flutter of sharpfanged bats from the cave?
3. Dragonflies flutter above spider webs bigger than beach balls.
4. To my surprise, her eyes began to flutter closed.
5. Plastic bags that are discarded flutter about in the wind.