flit Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a sudden quick movement
dart.
noun a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
- they did a moonlight flit
verb move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
dart; flutter; fleet.
- The hummingbird flitted among the branches

OE. flitten, flutten, to carry away; cf. Icel. flytja, Sw. flytta, Dan. flytte. 84. Cf. Fleet, v. i.

imperfect & past participle Flitted ; present participle & verbal noun Flitting

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.