flitty

comparative flittier · superlative flittiest

1. archaicunstable, fluttering.
2. slangOstentatiously effeminate.

   In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry."

   1999 December 24, Albert Williams, “Lean and Mean”, in Chicago Reader

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   The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.

   1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 185

   His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop.

   1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in Chicago Reader

   Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty "common-law assistant," Carmen Ghia.

   2001 February 23, Albert Williams, “Springtime for Mel Brooks”, in Chicago Reader