Flutter

Definition

flutter /'flʌtǝ(r) / v ၁။ (က) (ေတာင္ပံ)ခတ္သည္။ တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ပ်ံသည္။ moths fluttering round a lamp ❍ The bird fluttered briefly and then lay still. (ခ) (ေတာင္ပံ) ခတ္သည္။ The bird fluttered its wings and flew away. ၂။ (က) တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ လႈပ္ခါသည္။ တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ ရစ္ဝဲက် သည္။ curtains fluttering in the breeze ❍ a flag fluttering from the masthead ❍ The leaves fluttered to the ground. (ခ) တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ ခတ္ သည္။ She fluttered her eyelashes at me. ၃။ (ရင္) တလွပ္လွပ္ ခုန္သည္။ His heart fluttered with excitement. n ၁။ [ usu sing ] တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ခတ္ျခင္း။ the flutter of wings ❍ with a flutter of her long dark eyelashes. ၂။ [sing] ပ်ာယာခတ္ျခင္း။ be in a flutter/ all of a flutter ❍ feel a flutter of delight / panic. ၃။ [C] ႏွလံုးတလွပ္လွပ္ခုန္ျခင္း။ ၄။ [U] (အသံ) နိမ့္ခ်ည္ျမင့္ခ်ည္ တုန္ခါျခင္း။ Compare WOW 2 ၅။ [C] ~ (on sth) ( Brit infml ) (အနည္းငယ္) ေလာင္းျခင္း။ have a flutter (on a horse) at the races.

Examples

1. Thousands of spectators fluttered Olympic and national flags.
2. Alexandra’s hands were fluttering around his head.
3. Autumn leaves fluttered to the ground.
4. [flutter around/from/against] : Attracted by the light
5. moths fluttered against the windows.