aflicker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
aflicker (not comparable)
- 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,
- 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles” in Aristophanes’ Apology, Boston: James R. Osgood, p. 202,[1]
Adverb[edit]
aflicker (not comparable)