Verb (intransitive):
To move with an unpredictable blend of light, flutter-like motion and smooth, sinuous gliding; to appear as though caught between fluttering like a butterfly and sliding like a serpent.
Adjective:
Describing a manner of movement that is whimsically unpredictable and endearingly erratic, combining the qualities of fluttering and slithering.
To move with an unpredictable blend of light, flutter-like motion and smooth, sinuous gliding; to appear as though caught between fluttering like a butterfly and sliding like a serpent.
Adjective:
Describing a manner of movement that is whimsically unpredictable and endearingly erratic, combining the qualities of fluttering and slithering.
Verb:
At the village fête, the children flithered between stalls, their movements both erratic and graceful.
Adjective:
Her flithering steps along the ancient cobblestones captivated everyone with their playful yet unsteady grace.
At the village fête, the children flithered between stalls, their movements both erratic and graceful.
Adjective:
Her flithering steps along the ancient cobblestones captivated everyone with their playful yet unsteady grace.
by dprjbhttchry April 15, 2025
Get the Flitheringmug. Flither (verb)
/ˈflɪð.ər/
To lightly and intentionally glide fingers, brushes, or soft objects across the skin in a barely-there way that feels soothing, tingly, or euphoric. A cross between stroking and whispering, but for your nervous system.
/ˈflɪð.ər/
To lightly and intentionally glide fingers, brushes, or soft objects across the skin in a barely-there way that feels soothing, tingly, or euphoric. A cross between stroking and whispering, but for your nervous system.
Examples:
• “I like to flither my makeup brush along my jawline. It feels like petting my own soul.”
• “She flithered the kabuki brush across her cheekbone and physically ascended.”
• “He kept flithering his fingertips along my arm, and I got goosebumps every time.”
• “This moisturizer flithers into my skin like angel tears.”
Related Forms:
• flithers – “She flithers her collarbone every morning after serum.”
• flithered – “I flithered myself to sleep. No regrets.”
• flithering – “Just flithering through life one brushstroke at a time.”
• “I like to flither my makeup brush along my jawline. It feels like petting my own soul.”
• “She flithered the kabuki brush across her cheekbone and physically ascended.”
• “He kept flithering his fingertips along my arm, and I got goosebumps every time.”
• “This moisturizer flithers into my skin like angel tears.”
Related Forms:
• flithers – “She flithers her collarbone every morning after serum.”
• flithered – “I flithered myself to sleep. No regrets.”
• flithering – “Just flithering through life one brushstroke at a time.”
by VeeTheLetter October 2, 2025
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