flit
flit Lexical Profile
flit Game Scores & Validity
• verb
To move swiftly, lightly, and restlessly from one place to another.
"Swallows flitted across the evening sky as the sun dipped below the horizon."
To pass quickly, transiently, or fleetingly (especially of thoughts, expressions, or time).
"A faint smile flitted across her face before she resumed her serious expression."
British To move out of one's house or change residence, especially secretly to evade creditors.
"Unable to pay the arrears, the family flitted in the dead of night."
• noun
A swift, light, darting movement or flight.
"With a quick flit of its wings, the hummingbird vanished into the garden foliage."
British An act of moving out of a house or changing one's residence, especially hurriedly or secretively to avoid paying rent.
"The landlord arrived on Monday morning only to discover that the tenants had done a midnight flit."
• Rhymes for flit
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old Norse 'flytja' (to move, carry, or remove), deriving from a Proto-Germanic root shared with 'fleet' and 'float'.