Crossword clues for flit
flit
- Fly like a moth
- Dart like a butterfly
- Move quickly from place to place
- Move like a bird
- Move about like a hummingbird
- Fly lightly and swiftly
- Flighty maneuver
- Emulate a moth
- Butterfly about?
- What hummingbirds do
- Travel like a monarch
- Pass lightly
- Pass (by) quickly, as time
- Move quickly, like a hummingbird
- Move quickly and quietly (by moonlight?)
- Move like hummingbirds
- Move like a bee
- Move lightly through the air
- Move lightly
- Move about rapidly
- Move about quickly
- Moonlight escape?
- Make mothlike movements
- Make like a moth
- Go like a butterfly
- Go from flower to flower
- Fly like moths
- Fly lightly and erratically
- Fly erratically
- Fly around like a moth
- Flutter — leave by moonlight?
- Emulate a monarch
- Emulate a butterfly
- Decamp (by moonlight?)
- Dart, in a way
- Dart through the air
- Dart quickly, like a butterfly
- Dart like a dragonfly
- Dart around, as a bee
- Dart around
- Dart — elope
- Move erratically
- Skitter
- Skim along
- Fly like a butterfly
- Dart about
- Hummingbirds do it
- Pass quickly, as time
- Move like a butterfly
- Move quickly and lightly
- Move like a moth
- Be like a bee
- Dart along
- Move like a hummingbird
- Dart (around)
- Move like a fairy
- A sudden quick movement
- (British) a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
- Fly rapidly
- Flutter by like a butterfly
- Rove on the wing
- Zip around
- Move swiftly, like a butterfly
- Move capriciously
- Dart; flutter
- Fly lightly and rapidly
- Move swiftly and lightly
- Skim or dart
- Secret departure (by moonlight?)
- Dart - elope
- Gad about
- Move rapidly
- Act the butterfly
- Be a gadabout
- Dart here and there
- Move like a dragonfly
- Move like a monarch
- Emulate a hummingbird
- Do a runner
- Move like moths
- Go like a hummingbird
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flit \Flit\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Flitting.] [OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. [root]84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.]
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To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
A shadow flits before me.
--Tennyson. To flutter; to rove on the wing.
--Dryden.-
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
It became a received opinion, that the souls of men, departing this life, did flit out of one body into some other.
--Hooker. To remove from one place or habitation to another. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
--Wright. Jamieson.-
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
And the free soul to flitting air resigned.
--Dryden.
Flit \Flit\, a. Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, flitten, flytten, flutten "convey, move (a thing) from one place to another, take, carry away," also intransitive, "go away, move, migrate," from Old Norse flytja "to remove, bring," from Proto-Germanic *flutjan- "to float," from extended form of PIE *pleu- "to flow" (see pluvial). Intransitive sense "move lightly and swiftly" is from early 15c.; from c.1500 as "remove from one habitation to another" (originally Northern English and Scottish)Theire desire ... is to goe to theire newe masters eyther on a Tewsday, or on a Thursday; for ... they say Munday flitte, Neaver sitte. [Henry Best, farming & account book, 1641]\nRelated: Flitted; flitting. As a noun, "a flitting, a removal," from 1835.
Wiktionary
(context poetic obsolete English) fast, nimble. n. 1 A fluttering or darting movement. 2 (context physics English) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state. 3 (context slang English) A homosexual. v
1 To move about rapidly and nimbly. 2 To move quickly from one location to another. 3 (context physics English) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time. 4 (context UK Scotland dialect English) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts). 5 To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
WordNet
Wikipedia
FLIT is the brand name for an insecticide.
The original product, invented by chemist Dr. Franklin C. Nelson and launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, renamed itself first Esso and later Exxon. The Esso formulation contained 5% DDT in the late 1940s and early 1950s, before the negative environmental impact of DDT was widely understood. Later marketed as "FLIT MLO," it has since been discontinued. A hand-operated device called a Flit gun was commonly used to perform the spraying.
The Flit brand name has been reused for another insecticide product, with the primary active ingredient of permethrin, marketed by Clarke Mosquito Control. The current product is most often used to control adult mosquitoes. Spraying it into the air kills adult mosquitoes that are present and then by settling onto surfaces it kills mosquitoes that may later land.
Usage examples of "flit".
Fitzpatrick looked with bemused curiosity at the aquarium on the inner wall, where angelfish flitted back and forth in an endless exploration of their small world.
His globe, imported at great cost from Earth itself, involved anoles, quick, flitting creatures that fed and mated, birthed and died and fed the plants that fed the creatures that fed them.
Every spring she watched the bees flit back and forth between her tame orchard and the wild, seductive crab apples on the mountainsides.
His archenemy had learned of Sera, undoubtedly from the rumors flitting about East Chatham.
As Laura watched, the cameras grew more and more asynchronous, their movements finally totally uncoordinated as the two cameras flitted this way and that.
Everywhere there is a sound of closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner of a window pane.
A smattering of botflies flitted closer to shore, of a different sort than Sou-Hon Perreault rode.
Regina said breathlessly, and both girls watched her flit off into the crowd, moving, of course, in the direction of Hortense.
But the black and orange Monarch butterflies that flitted among the butterweed blossoms were having a field day.
Jack the difference between the chiffchaff and the willow-wren, several of which were flitting about in the leaves just overhead.
Verity saw the fear in his face and remembered how wary he was of Dayton, how, when he had to go, he flitted in and out of the deserted shops, looking nervously over his shoulder all the while.
Kyrie Eleison that Janice began to sense the first vague stirrings of interest and curiosity in the air - the secretive glances, smirks, and whisperings flitted about them like straws in a high wind.
I was endeavouring to gather the loose ends of many thoughts and memories which flitted elusively through my tired and overwrought brain.
The same held true for island warblers, which flitted through the trees after insects like their counterparts on the far side of the Hesperian Gulf.
They left the others immediately and flitted across this smaller open court between the vast columns with their brightly painted capitals and on towards the hypostyle hall.