0 past simple and past participle of flutter
1 to make a series of quick delicate movements up and down or from side to side, or to cause something to do this:
2 If your heart or stomach flutters, you feel slightly uncomfortable because you are excited or nervous:
In a parallel effort to present the nation through its regions, all the provincial flags fluttered overhead, setting the scene for a national celebration.
The book's darkness, fluttered momentarily by sarcasm, punctured in places by genuine humour or brilliant observation, is at once its triumph and a major problem.
We were all very fluttered and rather shy.
Filippi's hair fluttered about at the mercy of the wind.
In two hours' time it fluttered out and sat up, so he knew that its leg was not, as he feared, dislocated.
It took years in preparation, with all the consultation, yet amendments have fluttered down on it like confetti.
No bands played them away, no banners fluttered in the breeze.
Some of those who have fluttered have broken wings and some of us have had to pick up the broken wings and the broken homes.
