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Fluttering vs Prodigy - What's the difference?

fluttering | prodigy |

As nouns the difference between fluttering and prodigy

is that fluttering is rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation while prodigy is .

As a verb fluttering

is .

fluttering

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
  • * 1824 , Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons
  • It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite
  • * 1844 , Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life (page 59)
  • Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings , together with low clatterings, approached her ear.

    Verb

    (head)
  • prodigy

    English

    Noun

    (prodigies)
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 87:
  • John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
  • An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
  • An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
  • A wonderful example of something.
  • An extremely talented person, especially a child.
  • Synonyms

    * (extremely talented person) wunderkind, girl wonder, girl-genius, boy-genius, boy wonder, child prodigy.

    See also

    * precocious * prodigal * child prodigy * prodigy house