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Definition of Flitting
1. n. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
2. n. Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century.
Definition of Flitting
1. Verb. (present participle of flit) ¹
2. Noun. (Scotland northern England) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flitting
1. flit [v] - See also: flit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flitting
Literary usage of Flitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"THE "flitting" TO ABBOTSFORD — PLANTATIONS — GEORGE THOMSON— ROKEBY AND ...
and his answer contains, among other matters, a sketch of the " Forest flitting. ..."
2. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"I have been very much interrupted in it by other little things, not to mention
flitting. The fees come in very tolerably. I have a ' hearing in presence' ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"... and we were relieved from the trouble of watching for rocks, we saw by the
flitting clouds, by the first russet tinge on the hills, by the rushing river ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... -"-flitting by ; ' This in its buoyant tone rejoices ; The sights, the sounds
of remembered year: : •* That softly thrills on ..."
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