Definitions
excited in anticipation
Word origin
From a- + flutter-.
Used in a sentence
“I can hear / Your heart a-flutter over the snow-hills;”
“1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old”
“The winds bared her limbs, the opposing breezes set her garments aflutter as she ran, and a light air flung her locks streaming behind her.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Excited and nervous”8 letters
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