Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To flutter like a bird.

  2. (intransitive)To flicker; to quiver.

Origin

From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), from Old English *flacorian, from Prot

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).

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Forms

flackers, flackering, flackered, flackered
Base formflacker · to flacker
3rd person singularflackers
Present participleflackering
Past simpleflackered
Past participleflackered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyflacker
he, she, itflackers

Past simpleLesson

all personsflackered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave flackered
he, she, ithas flackered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill flacker

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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