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aflicker

adj

Etymology

From a- + flicker.

  1. inherited from *flikurōn✻
  2. inherited from flicerian
  3. inherited from flikeren — “to flutter”
  4. prefixed as aflicker — “a + flicker”

Definitions

  1. Flickering.

    • with age are limbs a-shake / And force a-flicker!
    • the long cave of the fort dining room, with tall candles of buffalo tallow wildly aflicker, and fiddle bows sawing,
    • whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV,

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