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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fl?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fl?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English flikeren (“to flutter”), from Old English flicerian, flicorian (“to flutter”).

Akin to Saterland Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”),West Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), Dutch flikkeren (“to flicker, flutter”), German Low German flickern (“to light up, flash, flicker”). Compare Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”), German flackern (“to flicker, flutter”), Old English fl?o?an (“to fly”).

Noun

flicker (countable and uncountable, plural flickers)

1. An unsteady flash of light.

2. A short moment.

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Verb

flicker (third-person singular simple present flickers, present participle flickering, simple past and past participle flickered)

1. (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year

     The shadows flicker to and fro.

   • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].

2. (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Ch.3:

     There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.

   • 1967, Barry Mason (writer), Tom Jones (performer), Delilah

     I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
     I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
3. To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.

   • And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.

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Etymology 2

1808, American English, probably echoic of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker.

Noun

flicker (plural flickers)

1. (US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.

Derived terms

• northern flicker (Colaptes auratus)
• yellow-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus auratus)
• red-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus cafer)
• Caribbean flicker (Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus)
• Guatemalan flicker (Colaptes auratus mexicanoides)
• Campo flicker (Colaptes campestris)
• Pampas flicker (Colaptes campestris)
• gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides)
• Fernandina's flicker (Colaptes fernandinae)
• Bermuda flicker (Colaptes oceanicus)
• Chilean flicker (Colaptes pitius)
• Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola)

Translations

See also

• flicker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

flick +? -er

Noun

flicker (plural flickers)

1. One who flicks.

Derived terms

• bean flicker

Anagrams

• fickler, frickle

English

Etymology

From click +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kl?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?(?)

Noun

clicker (plural clickers)

1. (slang) The remote-control device used to change settings on a television set, VCR, or other electronic equipment.

   We have a clicker for the TV, one for the VCR, one for the DVD player and another one that does it all.

2. An electronic device used by individual students in the classroom to respond to multiple-choice questions, etc.
3. A person who cuts out the uppers of shoes from pieces of leather using a flexible knife that clicks as it changes direction.
4. A machine that cuts materials using a steel rule die. The name comes from the sound (click) when the material is cut. May be hand, pneumatic, or hydraulic powered.
5. A signalling device used by military forces. Pressed between thumb and fingers, it makes a small but distinctive click understood by other members of a unit.
6. A small mechanical device that produces a clicking sound, used in dog training.
7. Someone who clicks, for example using a computer mouse.
8. (Britain, obsolete) One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy.
9. (printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
10. (printing, historical) An employee who locks the type in the form to make it ready for printing.

Derived terms

• clicker game

Anagrams

• clerick