0 present 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: --
From the start, engineers noticed that the wings were not strong enough to carry the outboard engines at cruising speed without warping and fluttering.
That may cause some fluttering in the dovecotes, but industry will increasingly find it convenient to deal with its counterparts if it operates a single currency.
A very excited old lady went to the manager's office, and said she was certain that the ducks were doped because they were not fluttering about in the water.
How melancholy it is to see in the autumn these forms fluttering over an admission tutor's desk.
But are we to ignore altogether these few faint fluttering gestures towards a greater liberalism?
They are opportunists, fluttering from issue to issue and alighting like flies on garbage heaps.
There was a little fluttering in the dovecotes and some rearrangements of business, because executive sessions were to remain secret.
I understand that this proposal has caused some flutterings in certain quarters, but we have been through this sort of thing before.
