flacker

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verb

To flutter like a bird.

OriginMiddle English flakeren ← Old English *flacorian ← Proto-West Germanic *flakurōn →
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Meanings

verbflacker (third-person singular simple present flackers, present participle flackering, simple past and past participle flackered)

present singular third person flackers · participle present flackering · participle past flackered · past flackered

  1. intransitiveTo flutter like a bird.

    And the cherubins flackered with their wings.

    1535, Myles Coverdale, Bible, Ezekiel x. 19
  2. intransitiveTo flicker; to quiver.

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*flakurōną“to flutter”
  2. Proto-West Germanic*flakurōn
  3. Old English*flacorian
  4. Middle Englishflakeren“to flutter, waver”
  5. Englishflacker

From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), from Old English *flacorian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakurōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter”), related to Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”). Sometimes regarded as a frequentative, equivalent to flack + -er (frequentative suffix). Akin to Middle Dutch flakkeren (“to flicker, waver”), German flackern (“to flare, flicker, flutter”), Icelandic flökra (“to flutter”), Icelandic flakka (“to rove about”), Old English flacor (“flying, fluttering”). See also flack, flicker.

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APA

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Chicago

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