Word Meanings - FLUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FLUTTER)

• Flaunt Boast
• vaunt
• flout
• flutter
• flounce
• display
• flourish
• parade
• figure
• Flicker
• Flutter
• quiver
• bicker
• falter
• waver
• glimmer
• shimmer
• scintillate
• Palpitate
• Throb
• beat
• pulsate
• pant

Related words: (words related to FLUTTER)

• FALTER
  To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• WAVERER
  One who wavers; one who is unsettled in doctrine, faith, opinion, or the like. Shak.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• GLIMMERING
  1. Faint, unsteady light; a glimmer. South. 2. A faint view or idea; a glimpse; an inkling.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• FLAUNTINGLY
  In a flaunting way.
• FLICKERMOUSE
  See FLITTERMOUSE
• WAVERINGLY
  In a wavering manner.
• FLOURISHINGLY
  , adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously.
• WAVERINGNESS
  The quality or state of wavering.
• FLAUNT
  To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show. You flaunt about the streets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.
• FLICKER
  1. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden. 2. To waver unsteadily, like a flame in a current of air, or when about to expire; as, the flickering light. The shadows flicker to fro.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• SCINTILLATE
  1. To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles. As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion. Sir W. Scott. 2. To sparkle, as the fixed stars.
• AFLICKER
  In a flickering state.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.
• CONFIGURE
  To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape. Bentley.
• WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
  Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite.