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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

flitsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From flit + -some.

Meanings

  1. Characterised or marked by flitting
    • Unflagging spider versus flitsome moth [...] 2011, Norman Hadley, Stinging the Sepia:
    • 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:

Forms

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more flitsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most flitsome Degree=Sup lexicographic