flit

pujahdus

muutto

lentää, liikkua nopeasti ja äänettömästi, säntäillä A fluttering or darting movement.
puhekieltä A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.

My computer just had a flit.

A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; (..)

There were many apes with faces similar to his own, and further over in the book he found, under "M," some little monkeys such as he saw daily flitting through the trees of his primeval forest. But nowhere was pictured any of his own people; in all the book was none that resembled Kerchak, or Tublat, or Kala.

By their means it became a received opinion, that the souls of men departing this life, do flit out of one body into some other.

My blender flits because the power cord is damaged.

(rfquotek)

After this manner did the late Warden of Barchester Hospital accomplish his flitting, and change his residence.

(..) we can't give any one house-room just now, for every Christmas Eve such a pack of Trolls come down upon us that we are forced to flit, and haven't so much as a house over our own heads, to say nothing of lending one to any one else.

the free soul to flitting air resigned

And in his hand two darts exceeding flit, / And deadly sharpe he held ....

där flitens lampa brinner

where someone works long hours