Meanings
verbupflicker (third-person singular simple present upflickers, present participle upflickering, simple past and past participle upflickered)
present singular third person upflickers · participle present upflickering · participle past upflickered · past upflickered
- poeticTo flicker upward.
The rose of love she wore for him blushed with a crimson flame, / And in her eyes the fire of life upflickered as he came.
1888, David Gray, “Outrivalled”, in Life, letters, poems, etc
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