aflicker

English

Etymology

a- +‎ flicker

Adjective

aflicker (not comparable)

1. Flickering.
   • 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles” in Aristophanes’ Apology, Boston: James R. Osgood, p. 202,^[1]

     with age are limbs a-shake / And force a-flicker!

   • 1978, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning” in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, p. 182,^[2]

     the long cave of the fort dining room, with tall candles of buffalo tallow wildly aflicker, and fiddle bows sawing,

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections, London: Fourth Estate, 2007, p. 309,^[3]

     whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV,

Adverb

aflicker (not comparable)

1. Flickering.