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Flapping

noun

1.

The motion made by flapping up and down. Synonyms: flap, flutter, fluttering.

Flap

verb

(past & past part. flapped; pres. part. flapping)

1.

Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion. Synonyms: roll, undulate, wave. "The waves rolled towards the beach"

2.

Move noisily.

3.

Move with a thrashing motion. Synonym: beat. "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky"

4.

Move with a flapping motion. Synonym: beat.

5.

Make a fuss; be agitated. Synonyms: dither, pother.

6.

Pronounce with a flap, of alveolar sounds.

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"Flapping" Quotes from Famous Books

... notions into a handsome method. One will carry twice more weight packed up in bundles, than when it lies flapping and ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... done all the work and the dinner was on the table she suddenly heard something flapping and whirling in the air, and she slipped behind the door. Then all the twelve ducks came sweeping in; but as soon as ever they crossed the ...

— East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon • Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

... tiller towards him. At this the boat came up to the wind, and resumed her former course. But this was the very course on which he did not wish to go; so he pushed the tiller from him. Upon this the boat fell away; and the flapping, jerking, whipping, and snapping, which had so alarmed him before, recommenced, and alarmed him more than ever. For some time he continued this, until at length, as he brought the boat up to the wind once more, there came a fresher puff than any which had thus far blown, and the boat ...

— Among the Brigands • James de Mille

... in the air and along the steel, and met and mixed with the hard, light beating of hoofs. The sounds approached together like a sort of charge, and I stepped between the freight-cars, where I heard Lin ordering the girl inside to lie down flat, and could see the agent running about in the dust, flapping his arms to signal with as much coherence as a chicken with its head off. I had very short space for wonder or alarm. The edge of one of my freight-cars glowed suddenly with the imminent headlight, and galloping ...

— Lin McLean • Owen Wister

... Stevens's, however, was necessarily swept out of sight for the moment. The wealthier citizens were in a state bordering on panic,—all but Mr. Lemuel Shackford. In his flapping linen duster, for the weather was very sultry now, Mr. Shackford was seen darting excitedly from street to street and hovering about the feverish crowds, like the stormy petrel wheeling on the edges of a gale. Usually as chary of his sympathies as of his gold, he astonished every one by ...

— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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