flutter
(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
Seen in the wild
"Apparently they're all of a flutter about it"
Lovely photos. It looks as though the slightest disturbance would see the flowers all flutter away like panicking butterflies.
WFH + sunny windy weather + laundry = the first employment of 2026 for the WASHING LINE. Flutter, my beautiful fabrics, flutter!
The moth-er lode: Conservationists flutter to Cairngorms for bumper egg release... www.rzss.org.uk/news/moth-er...
Cool! I'm more infrastructure but I'm building a cloud based content verification platform currently. Node/Express JS, WASM, Flutter, Postgresql, Cassandra, etc.
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(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
A bird flutters its wings.
“"Apparently they're all of a flutter about it"”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Lovely photos. It looks as though the slightest disturbance would see the flowers all flutter away like panicking butterflies.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“WFH + sunny windy weather + laundry = the first employment of 2026 for the WASHING LINE. Flutter, my beautiful fabrics, flutter!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The moth-er lode: Conservationists flutter to Cairngorms for bumper egg release... www.rzss.org.uk/news/moth-er...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Flûter Flutter (flu/thé) va arriver fort sa mère je prends le first en gros flutter c'est tu arrives tu dis ouais sa a flutter hier en mode sa a fais qqchose ou tu fais quoi tu flutte en bien voila donc si on me dit que qqn d'autre l'a créé je vais m'éviscéré les ganglions”
— r/words· Apr 2026
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(intransitive, aerodynamics) To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
This was the first time that Nosenko had been subjected to a lie detector — or what the CIA called fluttering. The Soviet Union did not use such devices for interrogation.
“Cool! I'm more infrastructure but I'm building a cloud based content verification platform currently. Node/Express JS, WASM, Flutter, Postgresql, Cassandra, etc.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Well, If I'm posting horse girls.... Manhattan Shy? Flutter Cafe? #nrokart #fanart #umamusume #manhattancafe #mlp #fluttershy”
— Bluesky· May 2026“📢 Pavago is #hiring a Mobile App Developer! 🌎 🔗 http://jbs.ink/zHQKNa0wSPJd #jobalert #jobsearch #remotejobs #backend #android #kotlin #ios #swift #design #flutter”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Ohh… poor thing… do you really regret it though? Does your heart not flutter at the idea of having me do this any time you want? Every day if you like… you did say you wanted it more often”
— Bluesky· May 2026“oh we're switching to flutter. oh it's on react. oh yeah no its all with REST what are you TALKING ABOUT”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
flags fluttering in the wind
"flutter" means: To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.. This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"flutter" means: To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.. Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
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