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Meaning of "flittermouse" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLITTERMOUSE

Translation of German Fledermaus.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLITTERMOUSE

ˈflɪtəˌmaʊs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLITTERMOUSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Flittermouse is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FLITTERMOUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bat

Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are very long and covered with a thin membrane or patagium. Bats are the second largest order of mammals, representing about 20% of all classified mammal species worldwide, with about 1,240 bat species divided into two suborders: the less specialized and largely fruit-eating megabats, or flying foxes, and the highly specialized and echolocating microbats. About 70% of bat species are insectivores. Most of the rest are frugivores, or fruit eaters. A few species, such as the fish-eating bat, feed from animals other than insects, with the vampire bats being hematophagous, or feeding on blood. Bats are present throughout most of the world, performing vital ecological roles of pollinating flowers and dispersing fruit seeds.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLITTERMOUSE

cat-and-mouse · creepmouse · dormouse · fieldmouse · mouse · oncomouse · rearmouse · reremouse · shrewmouse · titmouse · woodmouse

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLITTERMOUSE

flirtatious · flirtatiously · flirtatiousness · flirter · flirtingly · flirtish · flirty · flisk · flisky · flit · flitch · flite · flitt · flitted · flitter · flittermice · flittern · flitting · flivver · flix

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLITTERMOUSE

deer mouse · fat mouse · field mouse · harvest mouse · honey mouse · house mouse · jumping mouse · kangaroo mouse · marsupial mouse · meadow mouse · optical mouse · pampelmouse · play cat and mouse · pocket mouse · pompelmouse · sea mouse · smouse · the House · white-footed mouse · zamouse

Synonyms and antonyms of flittermouse in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «flittermouse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLITTERMOUSE

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The translations of flittermouse from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «flittermouse» in English.
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flittermouse
1,325 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
570 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
510 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
380 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
280 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
278 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
270 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
260 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
220 millions of speakers
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Flittermouse
190 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
180 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
130 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
85 millions of speakers
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Flittermouse
85 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
80 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
75 millions of speakers
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फ्लिटरमाउस
75 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
70 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
65 millions of speakers
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50 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
40 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
30 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
15 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
14 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
10 millions of speakers
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flittermouse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of flittermouse

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLITTERMOUSE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of flittermouse
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about flittermouse

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLITTERMOUSE»

Discover the use of flittermouse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to flittermouse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Flying Like Flittermouse
Flying like Flittermouse The second charming instalment of the Bottlenose Bay series from award-winning author/illustrator Jan Fearnley. The yellow teashop belonged to Etsuko hamster. She was full of kindness and made everyone welcome.
‎2013
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A shepherd's life: impressions of the South Wiltshire downs
Flittermouse in a rage went straight to the constable and denounced his patron as a sheep-stealer. He, Flittermouse, had been his servant and helper, and on the very last occasion of stealing a sheep he had got rid of the skin and offal by ...
William Henry Hudson, 1921
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The House of the Heart: And Other Plays for Children; ...
Golden the thread on the spindle flies, Pearly the tears of Rosadew's eyes, Twirl and turn, twirl and turn, Thistlekin, Flittermouse, Seed o' Fern ! [As the song ends Flittermouse comes into the room again, and somewhat impatiently, as well as ...
Constance D'Arcy Mackay, 1909
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The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine ...
I must say I do not see how we can hold the Flittermouse responsible for the number of deaths more or less in the parish,” protested the Vicar. “ "US as plain as a cadger's feet in the stocks! Folks be afeared to die. Look at old Mother Foster !
Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, 1895
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McClure's Magazine ...
Mary subscribed to an English sporting-paper, which was scarcely relevant to the career of Flittermouse, for that ornament of the turf remained on this side, and continued to lose races. Though the little kindergartner was engaged to a curate,  ...
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The London Magazine
Mary subscribed to a French sporting paper, which was scarcelv relevant to the career of Flittermouse, for that ornament of the turf remained on this side, and continued to lose races. Though the little kindergartner was engaged to a curate, and ...
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Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
Flittermouse l” exclaimed the'General, as the new comer entered, “who's that?” , 4 . “A runaway knock,” said Flittermouse, for such was the name of the speaker ; who, with little ceremony, seated himself at the table and lifted to his plate the ...
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The New Monthly Magazine
Flittermouse !" exclaimed the General, as the new comer entered, "who's that?" " A runaway knock," said Flittermouse, for such was the name of the speaker ; who, with little ceremony, seated himself at the table and lifted to his plate the thigh of ...
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New Monthly Magazine
Flittermouse !" exclaimed the General, as the new comer entered, " who '& that?" " A runaway knock," said Flittermouse, for such was the name of the speaker ; who, with little ceremony, seated himself at the table and lifted to his plate the thigh ...
Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, 1837
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Notes and Queries
1889, that he gives " Flittermouse — chauve-souris." The word ib not even in Annandale's excellent ' Concise Dictionary,' 1892. He haa " Bere-mouse," giving Shakespeare as his authority. The bat in these parts is called " rattle-mouse." Is this ...
William White, 1896

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLITTERMOUSE»

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GK Chesterton & The Impotence of Nightmares
I know not if it is owl or flittermouse; I could fancy it was a black cherub, an infernal cherub of darkness, not with the wings of a bird and the head ... «Patheos, Jan 14»
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How are Charlie Chaplin and World War I different in a world of …
According to gossip columns, she took to night-life like a proper flittermouse. The Polly Browne Set was notoriously flighty. She'd personally ... «io9, Apr 12»
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RADIO AND JULIET Comes to Columbus, 10/27
The following season, there were nine operettas, including The Beautiful Galatea and The Flittermouse. In April 1949, National Theatre Maribor ... «Broadway World, Sep 11»
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Bats out of hell drive Aberdeen woman from her dream home
Its jerky flight gave rise to the ancient name for bats – flittermouse. They are found in the British Isles and continental Europe (except the far ... «Scotsman, Aug 11»
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Rare and Medium Rare
This is a reasonable conjecture in light of German Fledermaus (as in the title of the famous opera), a cognate of Engl. flittermouse “bat,” that is, ... «OUPblog, Dec 09»
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Book Review: James Bond 007: Polestar
Three of them, 'Flittermouse', 'Polestar' and 'The Scent of Danger', were drawn by John McLusky, while the other two, 'Snake Goddess' and ... «Blogger News Network, Mar 09»
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