aflicker

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ flicker.

Adjective

aflicker (not comparable)

1. Flickering.
   • 1875, Robert Browning, “Herakles”, in Aristophanes’ Apology,‎^[1], Boston: James R.Osgood, page 202:

     with age are limbs a-shake / And force a-flicker!

   • 1978, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories‎^[2], New York: Knopf, page 182:

     the long cave of the fort dining room, with tall candles of buffalo tallow wildly aflicker, and fiddle bows sawing,

   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections‎^[3], London: Fourth Estate, published 2007, page 309:

     whole families grouped around tables, young heads bent over homework, dens aflicker with TV,

Adverb

aflicker (not comparable)

1. Flickering.