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flit
noun- an effeminate homosexual male US, 1935
- — G. Legman, The Language of Homsexuality, p. 1166, 1941
- 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. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 142, 1951
- Still, when this assistant prop man, crew-cut kid, flit, floppy wrists and pursy lips, what they called rough trade, a real camp, when he’d begun stroking Biff’s elbows and saying how gone he was on him, Biff hadn’t come down with the immediate kyawkyaws. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 202, 1954
- The reason she married Oscar in the first place was that she had been bored silly with the flits and lushs of cafe society. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 72, 1957
- “Has he been married?” “I bet he has been. He’s not flit.” “Flit?” “Stands for faggot.” — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 115, 1957
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 119, 1968
- a discreet and hurried departure to avoid debts UK, 1952
Probably from MOONLIGHT FLIT. - [I]f, for some weird and wonderful reason, you decide to do a flit, I can trace you — Ross Thomas, Out on the Rim, p. 86, 2003
- any insecticide in a spray can TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1993
A generic use, from the trade name of an insecticide. - — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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