To scatter in pieces.
To move about rapidly and nimbly.
To move quickly from one condition or location to another.
How she remembered the gray-feathered titmouse flittering about as she stared unbelievingly at the grave of her sister and clung to Reese, then five years old.
A fluttering movement
A waxing moon riding high in the sky and a flitter of bats about the rooftops, dipping and swerving as they gathered up the gnats that danced there in ephemeral clouds.
A rag; a tatter; a small piece or fragment.
Without a flitter of a blanket o'er me
From Middle English flytteren, frequentative form of flitten, flytten, flütten, possibly from Old Norse flytja (“to carry about, convey”), equivalent to flit + -er (frequentative suffix).
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Pronunciation spelling of fritter.