flicker

Etymology 1
From, from ,.

Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An unsteady flash of light.
 * 2)  A short moment.
 * 1)  A short moment.
 * 1)  A short moment.

Translations

 * Arabic: وَمِيض, وَمْضَة
 * Basque: ñirñir
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish: flimren
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ციმციმი, ციალი, გაელვება, ელვარება, აელვარება, კრთომა, გამოკრთომა, ბჟუტვა, კვესა, კამკამი, კაშკაში, ბრწყინვა, კიაფი
 * German: Flackern, Flimmern
 * Italian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: bruxuleio
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: мерехті́ння


 * Arabic: طَرْفَة, وَمْضَة
 * Armenian:
 * Danish: glimt
 * Finnish: väläys,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
 * 2)  To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
 * 3) * 1967, (writer),  (performer), 
 * I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window / I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
 * 1)  To flutter or flap.
 * 1) * 1967, (writer),  (performer), 
 * I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window / I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
 * 1)  To flutter or flap.
 * 1) * 1967, (writer),  (performer), 
 * I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window / I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
 * 1)  To flutter or flap.
 * 1)  To flutter or flap.

Translations

 * Arabic:, خفَقَ, يَخْتَلِج, يَرْتَعِش
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: flagri
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ციმციმებს, იელვებს, კრთის, კრთება, ბჟუტავს, ციალებს, კამკამებს, კიაფობს
 * German: ,
 * Greenlandic: anorliorpoq
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Maori: teretere, pūrēhua, kōpura
 * Persian: سو سو زدن, لپیدن
 * Portuguese:, bruxulear
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: blinke
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Greenlandic: angaluppoq
 * Italian: sfarfallare
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 2
1808, American English, probably of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker.

Noun



 * 1)  Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus.

Derived terms

 * Campo flicker
 * gilded flicker
 * northern flicker
 * red-shafted flicker
 * yellow-shafted flicker
 * gilded flicker
 * northern flicker
 * red-shafted flicker
 * yellow-shafted flicker
 * northern flicker
 * red-shafted flicker
 * yellow-shafted flicker

Translations

 * Armenian: ամերիկյան փայտփորիկ
 * Finnish:
 * German: Goldspecht
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Potawatomi: wesawangé
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) One who flicks.