flimmer

English

Etymology

From blend of flicker +‎ glimmer.

Pronunciation

Noun

flimmer (plural flimmers)

  1. A flickering glimmer.[1][2]
  2. One of the delicate lateral filaments typical of some flagella. (mastigoneme)[1]

Verb

flimmer (third-person singular simple present flimmers, present participle flimmering, simple past and past participle flimmered)

  1. (intransitive) To glimmer, flicker.
    Synonyms: twinkle, flicker, glimmer

References
  1. “flimmer” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
  2. Olga Kornienko, Grinin L, Ilyin I, Herrmann P, Korotayev A (2016), “Social and Economic Background of Blending”, in Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Global Transformations and Global Future‎, Uchitel Publishing House, →ISBN, pages 220–225
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