flichteredadj.
/ˈflɪxtəd/, /ˈflɪktəd/, U.S. /ˈflɪktərd/, /ˈflɪxtərd/, Scottish English /ˈflɪxtərd/ Scottish.
Thrown into a flutter:
a. volatile, flighty.
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1832–53 Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. (Sc. Songs) 70 I canna say flichter'd an' foolish ye've been.
b. frightened.
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1889 J. M. Barrie Window in Thrums xi. 102 They were juist as flichtered themsels.
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adj.1832- to get a person by the short hairs
- to get a person cold
- to get a person dead to rights
- to get a person in wrong
- to get a person nowhere
- to get a person on a slow boat to china
- to get a person on his etc feet
- to get a person on his feet
- to get a person on his her feet
- to get a person on the back foot
- to get a person on the raw
- to get a person somewhere
- to get a person to rights
- to get a person where the hair is short
- to get a person's back
- to get a person's back up
- to get a person's drift
- to get a person's goat
- to give utterance
- to give utterance to something
- to give vent
- to give vogue
- to give voice
- to give voice to
- to give wall