flittermouse

Definitions

A bat (a flying mammal).

dialectal

Equivalents

Examples

“I thank⟳ thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have⟳ you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?”

“1894, Philip Stewart Robinson, Birds of the Wave⟳ and Woodland, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page, The bats wheel overhead, their soft wings crumpling as they turn⟳ their somersaults, but never a voice in the air, save⟳ sharp needle-points of sound⟳, as flittermouse calls to flittermouse.”

“Now while they rested, a flittermouse flew forth from the Witchland booths and went widdershins round the wrastling ground and so returned silently whence she came.”

“They don't bump into folk, blind people don't. They're like⟳ flittermice. You never saw⟳ two flittermice bump into each other.”

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