flitty

unstable, fluttering.

Adjective

  1. unstable, fluttering.
  2. Ostentatiously effeminate.
    • The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway. - 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger,...
    • His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop. - 1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in...
    • In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry." - 1999 December 24, Albert Williams, “Lean and Mean”, in Chicago Reader:

Origin

From flit + -y.

Forms

flittier flittiest

Derived

flittiness