Flack'er intransitive verb [ Middle English flakeren , from flacken to move quickly to and fro; confer icel. flakka to rove about, Anglo-Saxon flacor fluttering, flying, German flackern to flare, flicker.] To flutter, as a bird. [ Prov. Eng.] Grose. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/36