flit
/flɪt/
verb
- To move quickly and lightly from place to place or from one thing to another.
- Her eyes flit nervously around the room during the interview.
- Thoughts flit through my mind as I try to fall asleep.
- Butterflies flit from flower to flower in the garden.
- To leave a place secretly or suddenly, especially to avoid a debt or obligation.
- They flit away before the landlord could collect the rent.
- He flit from the country after the business failed.
- The tenant flit out of the apartment in the middle of the night.
noun
- A quick, light movement or action.
- The bird took a quick flit from the branch to the feeder.
- I caught a flit of movement in the corner of my eye.
- With a flit of her hand, she shooed the fly away.