FLICKER, FLICKERING
ADJECTIVES
► LEVINING gleaming, glimmering, flickering → a1340 obs.
► SKIMMERING gleaming, glittering, flickering → c1440
► VENTILOUS fluttering, flickering, unsteady → 1483 obs.
VERBS
► BLICKER to shine intermittently, to flicker, to glimmer → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLINK to shine, to gleam; to twinkle, to glimmer, to flicker → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLINTER to shine feebly or with an unsteady flame; to flicker → 1888 Sc.
► FLIMMER to burn unsteadily; to flicker → 1880
► HAYTY to move up and down; to flicker about → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIRK of a lamp: to flicker → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUITTER to flicker, to quiver → 1513 Sc. obs.
► TWINKLE to move to and fro, or in and out, with rapid alternation; to appear and disappear in quick succession; to flicker, to flutter → 1616