flitter v.
(Irish) to reduce to rags and tatters, both lit. and fig., thus flitters n., bits and pieces.
![]() | Life and Adventures of Dr Dodimus Duckworth II 43: My ribs are all smashed in, and my liver torn to flitters. | |
![]() | Ulster Gaz. 30 Dec. 4/2: He kicked the cart all to flitters. | |
![]() | Islanders (1933) 133: Another summer I fished in Portnoo, I was near torn to flitters with fleas. | |
![]() | Emerald Square 140: ‘Wait till Linda gets yeh,’ he whispered. ‘An’ Sis ... an’ Maura ... an’ Rosie ... they’ll flitther yeh. An’ me mother sez she’ll break yer bloody face!’. | |
![]() | Out after Dark 91: It was common knowledge that Englishwomen, their morals in flitters from six years of war, were coming to Ireland to eat farm eggs and butter. | |
![]() | Smokey Hollow 53: You can’t be let out on a simple message but one of you comes back in flitters. |