FLUTTERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fluttering mean? 

• FLUTTERING (noun)
  The noun FLUTTERING has 1 sense:

1. the motion made by flapping up and down

  Familiarity information: FLUTTERING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLUTTERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The motion made by flapping up and down

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

flap; flapping; flutter; fluttering

Hypernyms ("fluttering" is a kind of...):

undulation; wave ((physics) a movement up and down or back and forth)

Derivation:

flutter (move back and forth very rapidly)

 Context examples 

And as he recovered she recovered, fluttering out of reach as his hungry hand went out to her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It was a clumsy way, but it did not take long, and soon the foresail as well was up and fluttering.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This can cause: • Palpitations (feelings that your heart is skipping a beat, fluttering, or beating too hard or too fast) • Shortness of breath • Cough • Fatigue, dizziness, or anxiety • Migraine headaches • Chest discomfort

(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

White Fang's natural impulse, when he saw the live food fluttering about him and under his very nose, was to spring upon it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"What fun! Who are they from? Didn't know you had a lover," cried the girls, fluttering about Meg in a high state of curiosity and surprise.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nearer and nearer came the two birds, all absorbed in their own contest, the stork wheeling upwards, the hawk still fluttering above it, until they were not a hundred paces from the camp.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She looked at me, with some fluttering wonder in her face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On a sudden she heard a fluttering and croaking in the air, and the dwarf said, “Here come my masters.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As he entered Wilson pulled the canary-yellow handkerchief from his waist, and going to the corner post, he tied it to the top of it, where it remained fluttering in the breeze.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fluttering veils and waving plumes filled the vehicles; two of the cavaliers were young, dashing-looking gentlemen; the third was Mr. Rochester, on his black horse, Mesrour, Pilot bounding before him; at his side rode a lady, and he and she were the first of the party.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)