Tending to move quickly with flicking motions; characterized by quick, light, snapping movements.
From flick (to move with a quick snapping motion) with the suffix -y, where flick derives from Low German or Dutch origins meaning to snap or flip quickly, becoming popular in English in the 16th-17th centuries.
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