[f. FLIT v. + -ER1.] One who or that which flits. a. One who changes his dwelling. b. A fleeting thing.
1554. Bradford, in Coverdale, Lett. Mart. (1564), 323. If we be flitters and not dwellers (as was Loth a flitter from Segor).
1613. trans. Favine’s Theat. Hon., II. xiii. 203. Such … were admonished to make themselues much fairer by the goods of the Soule: because those of the body were but flitters [orig. ceux du Corps ne sont que Passagers].
