Definitions for flit

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IPA: /flɪt/

Flit is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in flit (filt).

Definitions for flit

noun

1. a light, swift movement; flutter.
2. Scot. and North England. a change of residence; instance of moving to a new address.
3. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a male homosexual.

verb (used with object)

1. Chiefly Scot. to remove; transfer; oust or dispossess.

verb (used without object)

1. to move lightly and swiftly; fly, dart, or skim along:
2. to flutter, as a bird.
3. to pass quickly, as time:
4. Chiefly Scot. and North England. to depart or die. to change one's residence.

Origin of flit

1150-1200; Middle English flitten Old Norse flytja to carry, convey, Swedish flytta. See fleet²

Examples for flit

Now he saw one or two flit across the sunny glade in advance.

But Darrow's face was unstirred save by the flit of his half-amused smile.

This time we are back in 1941 and flit from Berlin (“the capital of a banana republic that had run out of bananas”) to Prague.

Silent, inscrutable, they flit through the American scene, alien to the last.

But the sopranos who did it flit across this planet like angels.

It was so still that the flit of a wing was almost startling.

She liked to flit out after him when he was going to church at night.

She and her mother had to flit so often—suddenly, noiselessly.

With yours so nearly ready to flit, no change in size is indicated now.

How they flit about, imps of evil as they are, and sound their horn of defiance in our ear!