flacker

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To flutter like a bird. intransitive
    — And the cherubins flackered with their wings.
  2. To flicker; to quiver. intransitive

词形变化

flackers present,singular,third-person flackering participle,present flackered participle,past flackered past

词源

From Middle English flakeren (“to flutter, waver”), from Old English *flacorian, from Proto-West Germanic *flakurōn, from Proto-Germanic *flakurōną (“to flutter”), related to Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”). Sometimes regarded as a frequentative, equivalent to flack + -er (frequentative suffix).
Akin to Middle Dutch flakkeren (“to flicker, waver”), German flackern (“to flare, flicker, flutter”), Icelandic flökra (“to flutter”), Icelandic flakka (“to rove about”), Old English flacor (“flying, fluttering”). See also flack, flicker.
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