Lexicographical Neighbors of Flichter
Literary usage of Flichter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"A great number of small objects flying in the air ; as, a flichter of bird», ...
But as the v. flichter properly denotes the act of moving the wings, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"To flichter is to flutter, to quiver with joyous excitement, and also to startle
or alarm. The word is evidently akin to the English flight and the Teutonic ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"flichter of maw. A flake of snow. flichter (gutt.), i. A great number of small
objects flying in theair ..."
4. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1880)
"... For she couldna thole the sting ; An' she flichter'd east, an' she flichter'd
wast, Sae wild an' sae shrill she sang : "O tell me—tell me true, ..."
5. The Scottish Poets Recent and Living by Alexander G. Murdoch (1883)
"... flew frae her mossy nest, For she couldna thole the sting ; An' she flichter'd
east, and she flichter'd west, ..."
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