flit

Meanings

Noun

• A fluttering or darting movement.
• A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
• A homosexual.

Verb

• To move about rapidly and nimbly.
• To move quickly from one location to another.
• To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
• To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
• To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
• To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

Adjective

• Fast, nimble.

Origin

• From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja ("to move"), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-. Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje.