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Aflutter   /əflˈətər/   Listen
Aflutter

adjective
1.
Excited in anticipation.  Synonym: nervous.






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"Aflutter" Quotes from Famous Books



... first appeared in Alexandria fresh from the tutelage of Drs. Benjamin Rush and William Shippen of Philadelphia. He was just twenty-one and of a figure to set feminine hearts aflutter; five feet ten inches, of commanding presence, very handsome, "playing with much skill upon several musical instruments" and singing in a sweet voice of great power; skilled and learned in his profession, "a strong and cultivated intellect," a genial ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore

... the rapids are troubled with pebbles That fetter and fret what the water would utter, And it rushes and splashes in tremulous trebles; It makes haste through the shallows, its soul is aflutter; ...
— Dreams and Dust • Don Marquis



Words linked to "Aflutter" :   nervous, excited



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