flickeringn.
/ˈflɪk(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflɪk(ə)rɪŋ/ The action of flicker v. in various senses.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [noun] > flap or flutter
flickeringc1440
bating1486
flushing1582
flurr1651
clapping1726
flacking1844
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel
flitingc1200
chidec1325
bicker1330
janglingc1330
chiding1340
wrangling1377
brawling1393
altercationc1405
words1410
brabblementa1563
wording1564
brabblery1567
bickering1573
jarring1574
bickerment1586
frapling1600
brangling1611
jangle1641
campling1660
frabble1685
collieshangie1737
flickering1776
wranglea1797
brabbling1858
bassa-bassa1956
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
leaming1387
shimmeringc1405
gleamingc1440
glimmeringc1440
skimmeringc1440
glimpsing1563
gloringa1652
flickering1816
glancing1832
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > fluttering or flickering
fluttering1382
wavering?a1400
flackeringc1440
playing1601
playa1628
flickering1875
upflutter1929
society > communication > broadcasting > television > visual element > [noun] > television picture or image > defects in
multiple image1863
ghost1927
flicker1933
ion spot1936
halation1937
blooming1940
shading1940
misregistration1942
snow1946
snowstorm1948
ringing1949
streaking1956
strobing1961
flickering1968
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > [noun] > faults
ghost image1872
flicker1899
jitter1943
strobing1959
flickering1968
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 165/2 Flekerynge of byrdys, volitacio. Flekerynge, or wauerynge yn an vnstable hert, vacillacio.
1527 Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy Soc.) 40 He [the Byrde] with flykerynge of his wynges made a full mery noyse.
1776 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 175 The newspapers..will inform you of public affairs, and the particular flickerings of parties in this colony.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xliv. 25 A flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering.
1875 S. Lanier Symphony in Poems 156 Fern-wavings and leaf-flickerings.
1883 Good Words July 469/1 What a flickering of mellowed sunlight comes over the eyes.
1968 Times 18 Apr. 2/8 A boy's susceptibility to the flickering of a television set led to his death.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
flickeringadj.
/ˈflɪk(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈflɪk(ə)rɪŋ/ That flickers, in senses of the verb.† 2. Caressing, coaxing, seducing. Obsolete.† 3. Changeable, unreliable, unsteady, wavering.
1. Of a bird: That flutters or hovers.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [adjective] > flapping or fluttering
flutteringc1374
flickeringa1544
bating1587
verberating1675
flopping1679
flapping1954
a1544 H. Latimer Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1328/1 Howe manye Larkes for a penye, yf euerye Starre in the Elemente were a flyckeringe hobye.
1664 Floddan Field i. 5 Flickering fame that monstrous wight With hundred wings wapping was blown.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 104 The Bat shrill-shrieking, woo'd his flickering Mate.
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the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [adjective] > influencing or persuading by caresses > acting in coaxing or fondling manner
flickeringc1525
c1525 J. Rastell New Commodye Propertes of Women sig. Aiiiv Theyre [women's] fals intents & flykkeryng smylyng.
1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Lviii The peruerse and malicious flickering inticementes, of lewde and vnhoneste desyres.
1607 R. Niccols Cuckow 10 Their chambring fortitude they did descrie By their soft maiden voice and flickering eie.
a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) iii. i. 36 I am not any flickering thing: I cannot boast of that slight-fading gift You men call beauty.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > insecure, weak
lithy1377
brucklea1400
flickering1430
queasy1459
weaka1538
infirm1557
slender1562
crazed1600
unsinewed1604
ticklish1606
touchy1620
crazied1652
flicketing1674
shaky1841
shackling1846
wonky1919
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > unreliability > [adjective] > of persons
slipperc1000
ficklea1275
untristya1387
flickering1430
untrusty1430
slidingc1435
unsurec1445
untraistc1485
unassure1531
slippery1555
untraisty1567
untrustful1569
unresponsable1619
uncanny1639
fair-weather1677
unresponsible1764
independable1802
unreliable1810
untrustworthy1846
undependable1860
incalculable1876
slithery1902
wonky1919
doubtful1925
1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. x The enuious ordre of fortunat meuinge, In worldly thynge false and flikerynge.
1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 295 Pyrs Waryn..whych ys a flykeryng felowe and a besy.
1586 in Bibliographer (1882) I. 75 All flickering wealth which flies in firmest hope.
a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) i. x. §5. 109 A weake and a flickring opinion.
a1763 W. Shenstone Price Equipage 25 To keep a race of flickering knaves, He grows himself the worst of slaves.
4. Quivering, vibrating unsteadily.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > fluttering or flickering
flutteryc1386
ventilous1484
wavering1488
flaffinga1522
flittering1549
flackering1567
flickeringa1586
fluttering1590
whiffling1765
fluttered1773
aflicker1842
flickery1893
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V2v He..hopes the flickring winde with net to holde.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 66 Vnlesse the Wines happen to haue a flickering Lee.
1757 J. Dyer Fleece iv. 121 Rising o'er the flick'ring waves.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xx. 36 A keen and furtive glance of her flickering eyes.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ii. 53 The lark sends down his flickering lay.
1887 S. Baring-Gould Gaverocks x, in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 229 I have seen a gilder blow the flickering sheet into the air.
5. That shines with, or is illuminated by, an unsteady or wavering light.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering
levininga1340
leaming1387
gloringa1400
gleamingc1400
glimpsing1551
shimmering1558
glooming1579
brandishing1581
gleamy1593
glancing1596
glimmering1600
flickering1608
flashing1616
blinking1681
glimmerous1793
skimmeringa1800
aglimmer1828
agleam1854
aglint1871
aglance1880
glinting1883
shimmery1883
glimmery1906
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 104 Whose influence like the wreath of radient fire In flitkering [1623 flicking] Phœbus front. View more context for this quotation
1791 Earl of Buchan Ess., Lett. Imitation Ancients (1812) 99 The..flickering rays of the departing light.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta in Calydon 1894 I see..Flushed pillars down the flickering vestibule.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 623 In the chamber burned The flickering candles.
Derivatives
ˈflickeringly adv. in a flickering manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adverb] > in a gleaming, glimmering, or flickering manner
glimmeringly1561
aglimmer1840
flickeringly1840
gleamingly1847
agleam1867
dancingly1892
aglint1905
a-shimmer1926
shimmeringly1934
1840 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 7 714 One moment, flickeringly, it shone.
1878 H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents i. 12 The ruddy light glistening flickeringly upon the black rock.
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