Flutter

Definition: Flutter

Flutter

Noun

1. The act of moving back and forth.

2. Abnormally rapid beating of the auricles of the heart (especially in a regular rhythm); can result in heart block.

3. A disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused".

4. The motion made by flapping up and down.

Verb

1. Move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart.

2. Move back and forth very rapidly, as of a candle.

3. Beat rapidly, of the heart.

4. Wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "flutter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

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Synonyms: Flutter

Agitation

Throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter, flicker, bicker; bustle.

Noun: agitation, stir, tremor, shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation, quiver, quaver, dance; quassation; shuffling c. Verb: twitter, flicker, flutter.

Changeableness

Verb: fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter, shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble, turn and turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute); oscillate; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes; alternate; have as man phases as the moon.

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Fear

Tremble, shake; shiver, shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake, quaver, quiver, quail.

Nervousness, restlessness; Adjective: inquietude, disquietude, worry, concern; batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling, perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart, palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear; (cowardice); mortal funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair.

Feeling

Swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle; turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake; be agitated, be excited; look blue, look black; wince; draw a deep breath.

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Haste

Verb: haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash; Noun: hurry on, dash on, whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush; (violence); express.

Noun: haste, urgency; despatch, dispatch; acceleration, spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity; precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness; Adjective: impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.

Navigation

Fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.

Crosswords: Flutter

Danish (flutter).

You've Only Got My Heart On A String And Everything A Flutter (No More Lonely Nights; performing artist: Paul McCartney)

Father's Little Flutter (1913)

Books

• Flutter By, Butterfly (Elmo's World, #2) (reference)

• My angel baby flutter fly (reference)

• The Flutter Blossom family and the Spring Fairy Faire (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• My Little Pony:End of Flutter Valley (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wow and Flutter (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

When William comes to town. Miss Baltimore: I'm all a flutter, my William is coming. Credit: Library of Congress.

She read the concluding lines, and was all flutter and happiness

The little silk badge with the white rose on it that was pinned on the breast of his jacket began to flutter.

Sometimes I think the flutter in her heart is really in her brain

The cotton field scurried with waking life, the quick flutter of morning birds feeding on the ground, the scamper over the clods of disturbed rabbits

In a little time I observed the noise of flutter of wings to increase very fast, and my box was tossed up and down, like a sign post on a windy day.

Health

Treatment with the flutter does not require the assistance of another person, giving the patient more independence. (references)

When patients exhale through the flutter, a special valve causes rapid air pressure fluctuations in the patients' airways. (references)

In an NIDDK-sponsored study, three times more mucus was cleared with the flutter than after chest percussion and vibration by an experienced respiratory therapist or by vigorous voluntary coughing. (references)

Expressions using "flutter": atrial flutter ♦ be in a flutter ♦ classical flutter ♦ coupled flutter ♦ flutter about ♦ flutter around ♦ flutter down ♦ flutter its wings ♦ flutter kick ♦ flutter one's eyelashes ♦ Flutter wheel ♦ heart flutter ♦ make a flutter ♦ torsional flutter. Additional references.

Beginning with "flutter": flutter-jump, flutter-snake, flutter-tongue, flutter-tonguing.

Ending with "flutter": a-flutter.

Albanian

fluturoj lehtë-lehtë (flitter), vibrim, valëvitje (flourish, waft, wave), valëvitet (flitter, wave), vërtitem (circle, dance, flitter, gyrate, loiter, mill, mooch, move, move about, Potter, revolve, roll, turn, turn round, wheel, whirl round), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), trazim (agitation, commotion, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, disturbance, dust, elaboration, fidget, flurry, fluster, immixture, kneading, melange, mixing, mixture, perturbation, poke, turbidity, turbulence), rrahje zemre (heartbeat, palpitation, pant), rrahje krahësh, rrah zemra (flitter), rrah krahët (flitter), i fërgëllon zemra, dridhje (didder, dither, fibrillation, flicker, flickering, jarring, jerk, palpitation, pulse, quake, quiver, shake, shaking, shiver, shudder, throb, tremble, trembling, tremolo, tremor, twitch, vibrancy, vibration). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هياج (commotion, eruption, excitation, excitement, flop, roughness, ruction, shindy), ‏قال بارتباك, ‏تشنج (convulse, convulsion, cramp, squirm, tense), ‏صفق بجناحيه (flap), ‏إهتاج (be agitated, be excited, be nervous, be upset, boil, effervesce, ferment, flurry, fuss, seethe, simmer), ‏إضطراب (coil, disorder, distraction, disturbance, dust, flurry, ill, nervousness, perturbation, ramp, rout, ruction, ruffle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, trouble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, uproar), ‏إختلال في خفقان القلب, ‏إرتعاش (quaver, quiver, shake, shaking, trembling, tremor, twitch, twitter, wobble), ‏إرتعش (be shocked, bicker, jerk, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle, tremble, twitch, waver, wobble), ‏إرتعد (quake, shiver, shudder, thrill, tremble), ‏رفرفة (hover, wave), ‏رفرف (flap, hover, poise, wave), ‏دقات خفيفة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

трепет (quiver, thrill, throb, tremble, trembling, tremor, trepidation, twitter), пляскане с криле (flap), потрепвам (flinch, quail, thrill, tremble, whiffle), примигване (wink), прехвръквам (flit), неравномерен съм, вея се (dangle, streak, stream), пляскам с криле (flap, flop, winnow), въртя се (circle, fidget, hover, pivot, reel, shuffle, swirl, wheel, whirl), суетя се (niggle, scurry), трептене (jar, oscillation, quiver, trembling, tremor, vibration, wave), развяване (flying), развълнувам (fluster, groove, move, penetrate, shake, wind up, work on), разтупвам се (palpitate), спекулации на дребно, ускорено биене, вълнувам се (effervesce, get excited, pulsate, roll, surge, take on, thrill, throb). (various references)

Chinese 

飄揚 (fly, wave), 振翼 (fluttering). (various references)

Czech

vzrušení (arousal, buzz, emotion, excitement, kick, racket, state, thrill, upset), vlát (fly, stream, sweep, wave), třepetat se (fly, wag), třepetání (quiver), rozrušení (distraction), rozbušit se, nervozita (flap, fuss, jitters, nerves, nervousness), chvìt se (judder, pulsate, quail, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shudder, tingle, tremble, vibrate, waver). (various references)

Danish

flutter (flicker). (various references)

Dutch

fladderen (flirt, flit), trilling (vibration). (various references)

Esperanto

flirti (flirt, flit), vibrado (vibration), agito (agitation, commotion, disturbance, excitement, turmoil). (various references)

Faeroese

flákra (flare, flare up, flirt, flit), fjasa (court, flirt, flit, woo). (various references)

Finnish

flutteri, flatteri, värinä (flicker), värähtely (vibration), räpyttää (flap), räpytellä (flap), pyristellä (flounder, struggle), pyrähtää, liehua (flap, fly), lepattaa (flap), hulmuta (fly, wave), hulmahtaa (flare up), hulmahdus, hakkailla (flirt, flit), eteislepatus. (various references)

French

voltiger (flit, flirt), flirter (flirt, flit). (various references)

German

flattern (thrashing). (various references)

Greek 

πτερυγίζω (flap, flicker, flit). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפרפר (crumb, fly, hover, jerk, palpitate, quiver, struggle, twitch), להתפרפר (flap), להתנופף (swing oneself, toss, wave), להתנפנף (flap, wave), לרפרף (flip through, float, shimmy, wobble), התרגשות (emotion, excitement, flurry, stir), רפרוף (hovering, superficiality), נפנוף כנפים. (various references)

Hungarian

pislogás (blink, twinkle), szárnycsapkodás (flutter of wings), csattogás (clatter), felületrezgés, gyors érverés (frequent pulse, quick pulse), gyors szívdobogás, idegesség (nerves, jangled nerves, jumpiness), kisebbfajta spekuláció, lázas izgalom (fever of excitement), lebegés (levitation), lebegtetés (flourish), lengés (sway, oscillation, swing), lengetés (flaunt, flourish), libegés (flap, flicker), csörgés (clank, buzz, jingle), lobogtatás (flaunt, flourish), vibrálás (thrill, vibrancy, vibration), pulzálás (throb), röpdösés (flitting), röpködés, rebbenés (quiver), szárnyrezegtetés (flutter of wings), szárnyverdesés (flutter of wings), szabálytalan érverés (intermittent pulse), szabálytalan szívdobogás, szemrebbenés, szorongás (distress), tőzsdézés kis tételekben, torzulás (distortion, skewness), lobogás (flaming, flare, flash). (various references)

Indonesian

menggelepur (flounder), menggelepar (flap, hover, twitch, wallop), geletak (flounder). (various references)

Italian

svolazzare (flicker, flit, fly about, hover, thrashing, wave, waver). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

揺曳 (linger), びしょ濡れ (a slap in the face, at the bottom, closely packed, crowded close, dabbling, drenched, flutteringly, last on the list, like an electric shock, rattling, ripping, splashing, wet through, wet to the skin), ひょう窃 (accidentally, by chance, frail, hurt, lanky, long and thin, maybe, perhaps, piracy, plagiarism, possibly, smart, swaying, tall and thin, to feelcool, unexpectedly, unsteady steps). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びらびら (flutteringly), ひらひら , ようえい (linger). (various references)

Korean 

플러터. (various references)

Manx

soutal, soutaghey (leap, moan, moaning, sob), sout, gial beg, craa (brandish, dither, dodder, flicker, jog, jolt, judder, quaver, ring, rustle, shake, shiver, shock, sprinkle, tremble, vibrate, warble), bennalt (flap, fly, waft, winnow). (various references)

Norwegian

flagring, flagre, vibrering, gjøre urolig . (various references)

Papiamen

agitashon (agitation, excitement). (various references)

Pig Latin

utterflay.(various references)

Portuguese

fibrilação (fibrillation), fazer uma fezinha, flutuar ao vento, vibração aeroelástica, agitação (agitation, commotion, tumult), agitar (stir, wave), alarme (warning), alvoroço (ado, affray, agitation, bustle, commotion, donnybrook, rampage, roughhouse, rout, to-do, tumult), autovibração, bater as asas (make off, run away), batimento (backlash, bouncing, hammering, knock, pit-a-pat, pulsation, pulse, shock, thump), excitação (stimulus), "flutter", tremular (bicker, tremble, wave, waver, wink), voltear (circle, detour, flicker), vibração (vibration, chatter), nervosismo (jitters, stew), palpitação (palpitation), rodopiar (twirl, waltz, whirl), tremer (quiver, shiver, tremble), tremulação, cintilação (scintillation). (various references)

Romanian

forfoti (bustle, clutter, fuss, simmer), fâlfâi (flap, flicker, float, fly, stream, wave), fâlfâire (fluttering), fluturare (wave), frãmântare (agitation, anxiety, discomposure, fermentation, fluster, fret, fretfulness, kneading, torture, trepidation, unrest, worry), flutura (brandish, flaunt, flit, float, flourish, flow, fly, quiver, swing, wave, whisk about), încercare riscantã, agita (agitate, shake), agitaţie (ado, agitation, bustle, clutter, commotion, dusty, emotion, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, flurry, fret, go, haste, inquietude, nervousness, perturbation, restlessness, riotousness, roughness, squirm, stir, trepidation, unrest, vexation, working), bate din aripi (flap its wings), bate neregulat, dârdâi (chatter, flurry, quake, tremble), emoţie (agitation, emotion, excitement, feeling, flush, heart-beat, sensation, thrill, tremor, turn), emoţiona (move, stir), umbla agitat, tremura de emoţie, tulbura (agitate, bewilder, cloud, confuse, disconcert, distract, disturb, flurry, fret, incommode, indispose, interrupt, intrude upon, Mar, muddle, muddy, perturb, puddle, ripple, stir, trouble, upset, vex, worry), vibra (joggle, jolt, oscillate, pulsate, pulse, quaver, quiver, rock, throb, vibrate), tremura de fricã, nelinişti (discomfort, discompose, disquiet, fret, perturb, pother, worry), palpita (palpitate, thrill, throb, tremble), se agita (agitate, billow, bustle, ferment, fluster, fret, fuss, hitch, rustle, seethe, squirm, toss, tumble, vibrate, wag), se frãmânta (ferment, fidget), undui (float, play, twist, wave). (various references)

Russian 

развеваться дрожание, развеваться (fly), риск (peril), трепетать (dither, palpitate, pant, quiver, thrill, tremble), трепетание (fibrillation, oscillation, palpitation), трепет (trepidation), волноваться (be ~ nervios, be ~ nervious, be agitated, roll, worry), волновать (perturb), волнение (commotion, excitement, gurgitation, tizzy, turbulence), переполох (alarm, hurly-burly), дрожать (shiver), дрожание (jar, thrill, vibration). (various references)

Scottish

itealaich (nf. flying). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

flater, zalepršati, viti (twine, wind), vihoriti se (wave), lepršati (bat, flap, flitter, wave), lepršanje (flap). (various references)

Spanish

aletear (flap, flicker, flounder, quiver its wings, skirr, thrashing, wave, waver). (various references)

Swedish

oro (anxiety, qualm, unrest), fladdra (flicker, flit), fladder (empty show, levity). (various references)

Turkish

titremek (dither, dodder, falter, flicker, jerk, judder, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shimmy, shiver, shudder, thrill, throb, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobble), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, racket, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), pır pır etmek (whir, whirr, whiz), pır pır etme (whir, whirr, whirring, whizzing), kanat çırpmak (flap), küçük oynama, heyecan (affect, agitation, animation, Ardor, ardour, bang, commotion, dither, drama, emotion, enthusiasm, exaltation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fever, fire, flap, flurry, flush, furor, furore, glow, kick, pucker, razzle-dazzle, rhapsody, ruffle, sensation, shiver, spice, spring tide, stir, taking, tension, the shivers, thrill, tingle, twitter, vibes, vibration, wallop, warmth, yeast), dalgalanmak (balance, float, flourish, fluctuate, fly, ripple, ruffle, shiver, stream, surge, undulate, wave, whip), düzensiz hareket etmek (fluctuate), çarpıntılı olmak, çarpıntı (palpitation, pit-a-pat, throb, tremor), çırpınmak (flop, fuss about, struggle), çırpınma (clonus, convulsion, convulsive, spasm, struggle). (various references)

Turkmen 

gymyldy (small movement), galgamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розмахування (flourish, swinging), хвилюватися (bother, care, create, effervesce, fidget, grizzle, mind, raise a dust, run high, stew, throb, wave, welter), тріпотіння, тремтіти (dither, palpitate, quaver, shake, shudder), трепет (awe, fear, palpitation, pit-a-pat, thrill, vibration), вібрація (drumming, jarring, judder, oscillation, pulse, vibration). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vẫy (waggle). (various references)

Welsh

ysgwyd (brandish, shake, wag), dychlamu (palpitate, throb). (various references)

volito. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "flutter": flutterboard, flutterboards, fluttered, flutterer, flutterers, fluttering, flutters, fluttery. (additional references)

Words ending with "flutter": aflutter. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Flutter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fauter, flattern, flatteur, flotte, Flotter, Flottweg, fluten, fluther, flutte, Fulter, futer, futter, glutter, Lutteur. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fluter, tufter, turtle.

-2 letters: flute, utter.

-3 letters: felt, flue, fret, fuel, furl, left, lure, lute, reft, rule, tref, tret, true, tuft, tule, turf.

-4 letters: eft, elf, fer, fet, feu, flu, fur, let, leu, ref, ret, rue, rut, tel, tet, tut.

-5 letters: ef, el, er, et, re, ut.

+1 letter: aflutter, flutters, fluttery, fruitlet.

+2 letters: butterfly, fluttered, flutterer, fruitlets, ultraleft.

+3 letters: flutterers, fluttering, platterful.

+4 letters: butterflied, butterflies, butterflyer, fortunately, platterfuls, plattersful, restfullest, sulfuretted.

+5 letters: butterflyers, butterflying, fluidextract, flutterboard, fruitfullest, gratefullest, interfaculty, sulfuretting, tristfulness, trustfulness, truthfulness, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, unflattering.