FLUTTER, FLUTTERING
ADJECTIVES
► VENTILOUS fluttering, flickering, unsteady → 1483 obs.
ADVERBS
► APIT-APAT fluttering, palpitating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALLOP with a quick, fluttering motion; with a lurch or plunge; in a heap → 1885 Sc.
NOUNS
► HATTER a state of agitation; a flutter, a fuss → a1917 Sc.
► QUILTER a flutter, fluster; agitation of mind → 1873 Eng. dial.
► WAFF a flapping, waving movement; a flutter → 1766 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► WALLOP the act of dangling loose; the act of fluttering → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BATE to flutter, to struggle; to be restless or impatient → 1592 obs.
► FAN of a bird: to flutter → c1400 obs.
► FEAK to flutter, to be officiously busy about trifles, to be idle, to fidget; to be uneasy or anxious → 1775 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FLACK to flap, flutter; to strike a blow → 1806 Amer. dial.
► FLICKET to flutter → 1930 Amer. dial.
► FLIRT to flutter → 1952 Amer. dial.
► QUILTER to flutter → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SKIMMER to flutter, to move rapidly; to frisk about lightly → 1824
► TATTERWALLOP to hang or flutter in rags → 1866 Sc.
► 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
► TWITTER to tremble or move to and fro with a light rapid motion; to shake, to quiver, to flutter; esp. to tremble with excitement, eagerness, fear, etc. → 1629
► VAVEL to flutter to and fro in the wind; to flap → 1866 Sc.
► VLUCKER to flutter, to fly about → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAFF to flutter, to flap, to sway from side to side → 1813 Sc.
► WAFFLE to wave about, to waver in the air, to flap, to flutter → 1825 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WAGTAIL to flutter → 1606 obs.
► WALLOP to move to and fro, to wave, to flap, to dangle, to flutter, to swing or shake → 1822 Sc.
► WAMFLE to go about with flapping garments; of garments, etc.: to flap, to flutter in the wind → 1808 Sc.