flitting Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
    flit; dart; flutter; fleet.
    • The hummingbird flitted among the branches

WordNet

Flit"ting noun
Definitions
  1. A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
  2. A removal from one habitation to another. Scot. & Prov. Eng.
    A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away. Jeffrey.

Webster 1913