Definition of "aflutter" in Englisch

adjective

1. Fluttering.

   • 1888, W. B. Yeats, “King Gall” in uncredited editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, Dublin: M.H. Gill, p. 43, They will not hush, the leaves a-flutter round me—the beech leaves old

2. Filled or covered (with something that flutters).

3. In a state of tremulous excitement, anticipation or confusion.

   • 1930, Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, Once in a Lifetime, Act III, in Burns Mantle (ed.), The Best Plays of 1930-31, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1931, p. 144, […] in breaks Susan Walker a little more aflutter than usual. The picture is wonderful. Seeing her name in lights is wonderful. Everything is just wonderful.