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   flit

   /flɪt/

   verb

   • 1. move swiftly and lightly: "small birds flitted about in the branches"
   • ▪ move house or leave one's home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.

   noun

   • 1. an act of moving house or leaving one's home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations: informal British "moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the Scots and northern English sense): from Old Norse flytja; related to fleet4.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • F

     4

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • T

     1

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