flitting (root: flit)

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: flit=ting

CIDE DICTIONARY

flitting, n. 

•  A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.  [1913 Webster]
•  A removal from one habitation to another.  [1913 Webster]

  "A neighbor had lent his cart for the flitting, and it was now standing loaded at the door, ready to move away."  [1913 Webster]

flitting, n. 

 Contention; strife; scolding; specif., a kind of metrical contest between two persons, popular in Scotland in the 16th century.
"These “flytings” consisted of alternate torrents of sheer Billingsgate poured upon each other by the combatants."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

THESAURUS

flitting

adrift, afloat, airborne, alternating, amorphous, brittle, capricious, changeable, changeful, circumforaneous, corruptible, deciduous, desultory, deviable, discursive, divagatory, dizzy, drifting, dying, eccentric, ephemeral, errant, erratic, evanescent, fading, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, fleeting, flickering, flighty, floating, fluctuating, fluttering, fly-by-night, flying, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, freakish, fugacious, fugitive, gadding, giddy, gliding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hovering, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, infirm, insubstantial, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jet-propelled, landloping, mazy, meandering, mercurial, migrational, migratory, momentary, moody, mortal, mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, passing, perishable, rambling, ranging, restless, roaming, rocket-propelled, roving, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, short-lived, shuffling, spasmodic, spineless, straggling, straying, strolling, temporal, temporary, traipsing, transient, transitive, transitory, transmigratory, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, undurable, unenduring, unfixed, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagabond, vagrant, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volant, volatile, volitant, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, winging, wishy-washy

ROGET THESAURUS

flitting

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.