"aflap" meaning in English

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          "text": "1894, George Lansing Raymond, The Aztec God, Act 3, in The Aztec God and Other Dramas, New York: Putnam, 1908, p. 66,\nand she / A vulture feasting with foul wings aflap"
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          "text": "nodding her head firmly, headscarf aflap",
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          "ref": "2013, Richard House, “The Hit”, in The Kills, London: Picador, page 806",
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          "ref": "1962, James Kirkup, chapter 10, in These Horned Islands, New York: Macmillan, page 152",
          "text": "Clothes-drying lofts, open frameworks on the flat roofs of houses, all aflap with clothes, sheets, kimono, reminded me of Canaletto’s pictures of Venetian life […]",
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          "ref": "2003, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail, published 2005, page 118",
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          "text": "1977, Niel Hancock, Calix Stay, New York: Fawcett Popular Library, p. 93,\n“First he says we isn’t welcome, then he’s all aflap cause some of us is gone.”"
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          "text": "1994, Bernice Morgan, Waiting for Time, St. John’s, NL: Breakwater, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53,\n[…] people are barely over our givin’ that extra quota of cod to the French, now they’re all aflap about selling spawny caplin to the Japanese […]"
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        "(colloquial) Showing excessive excitement or anger."
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