flittermouse

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A bat (a flying mammal).Examples: "I thank thee, gentle flittermouse, for these so pleasant memories. Have you ever caught and examined a flittermouse?"; "1894, Philip Stewart Robinson, Birds of the Wave and Woodland, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page, The bats wheel overhead, their soft wings crumpling as they turn their somersaults, but never a voice in the air, save sharp needle-points of sound, as flittermouse calls to flittermouse."; "Now while they rested, a flittermouse flew forth from the Witchland booths and went widdershins round the wrastling ground and so returned silently whence she came."dialectal