OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 39269

aflutter

/əˈflʌt.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
agitado
In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.
1930, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime, Act III, in Burns Mantle (ed.), The Best Plays of 1930-31, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, p. 144, […] in breaks Susan Walker…
[…] she rose, all a-flutter within, it is true, but with a face as nearly sedate as the inborn witchery of her eyes would allow.
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