Why this word is great
DARTLE — [Noun, Verb] A brief, sharp, and repeated flicker or piercing motion. From the English verb 'dart' (to move or throw swiftly) + the frequentative suffix '-le', indicating repeated or small action. Unlike 'flicker,' which suggests a wavering instability, or 'dart,' which denotes a single, purposeful launch, to dartle is to inhabit a scattered, persistent quickness. It is the staccato play of sunbeams through a wind-shaken canopy, the sensation of sleet needling a windowpane, or the way a startled minnow-school becomes a hundred silver needles in the murky green—a word for the world's small, persistent, and pointed disturbances.