flitsome
adjEtymology From flit + -some.
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Characterised or marked by flitting
- A target too flitsome for the other birds, it was an immense success with verdin who clung to it masterfully upside down and not a bit uneasy on that gyrating world, taking his fill and all the while full of warnings to potential intruders, giving vent to an intermittent and extremely loud robin-sized chirping.1957, Douglas Rigby, Desert happy:
- Unflagging spider versus flitsome moth [...]2011, Norman Hadley, Stinging the Sepia: