flit

  • 41flit gun — a hand held, pump action sprayer for liquid insecticide. [1925 30] * * * flit gun, a light, small, hand operated sprayer used especially to spray an insecticide. ╂[< Flit, a trademark for an insecticide] …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 42flit-gun — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: flit (IV) : a small hand insecticide sprayer chiefly for domestic use …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 43flit — fleet (5) …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 44flit — pop. Insecticida que se echa con empleo de vaporizador (por el nombre de la marca de gran difusión) …

    Diccionario Lunfardo

  • 45flit — Synonyms and related words: advance, aeroplane, air speed, airlift, airplane, auntie, ball the jack, balloon, barrel, bat around, be airborne, beat, beating, bi guy, bicker, bisexual, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along, brush, bull dyke, bum …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 46flit — flit1 n ( es/ u, fleotu) strife; dispute, contention; that which causes one to stumble, a stumbling block; an inducement to sin, a temptation, cause of offence [scandalum]; tó geflites emulously …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 47flit — I Cleveland Dialect List to remove one s goods etc... in the process of removing from one tenement...to another II Cleveland Dialect List a removal from one place of residence to another III North Country (Newcastle) Words to remove from one… …

    English dialects glossary

  • 48flit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. fly, dart, take wing. See departure, motion, travel, transientness. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. flutter, flash, dart; see dance 2 , fly 1 , race 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) …

    English dictionary for students

  • 49flit — see FLOAT …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50flit — m IV, D. u, Ms. flicie, blm «środek owadobójczy, zwykle płynny» Tępić robactwo flitem. ‹niem.› …

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