flit

 
Pronunciation: /flɪt/

verb (flits, flitting, flitted)

[no object, with adverbial of direction]
  • move swiftly and lightly: small birds flitted about in the branches figurative the idea had flitted through his mind
  • [no object] chiefly Scottish & Northern English move house or leave one’s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.

noun

British informal
  • an act of moving house or leaving one’s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations: moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another

Origin:

Middle English (in the Scots and northern English sense): from Old Norse flytja; related to fleet4