adv. prop. phrase. [A prep.1 + FLUTTER.] In a flutter, agitated.

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1830.  Gleig, Country Curate, I. ix. 178. All the unmarried women were a-flutter when I came among them.

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1855.  Browning, Men & Wom., II. 147. A cornfield-side a-flutter with poppies.

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