"flitty" meaning in English

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        "unstable, fluttering."
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        "(archaic) unstable, fluttering."
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          "ref": "1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 18, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 185:",
          "text": "The other end of the bar was full of flits. They weren't too flitty-looking—I mean they didn't have their hair too long or anything—but you could tell they were flits anyway.",
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          "ref": "1995 September 8, Peter Margasak, “Edwyn Collins”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "His once flitty warble has deepened into a quavery David Bowie/Iggy Pop croon, and it perfectly suits the new record's mix of quasi soul and somber guitar pop.",
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          "ref": "1999 December 24, Albert Williams, “Lean and Mean”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "In each scenario, the mother worries whether her flitty son (Garcia) will ever marry.\"",
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          "ref": "2001 February 23, Albert Williams, “Springtime for Mel Brooks”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty \"common-law assistant,\" Carmen Ghia.",
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        "Ostentatiously effeminate."
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        "(slang) Ostentatiously effeminate."
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        "unstable, fluttering."
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          "text": "Some observers may be taken aback by Brooks's treatment of homosexuality: while the subject was only a side theme in the movie, here it's placed front and center in the character of Roger and his flitty \"common-law assistant,\" Carmen Ghia.",
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