Meaning

2 senses

  1. (also, figuratively)A skittering movement.

    A skitter of activity. A skitter of gooseflesh.

  2. (Northern England, Scotland, uncountable)Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The centipede skittered across the sunlit forest floor.

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Origin

Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, parti

Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb.

From skite (“to defecate”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb.

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Forms

plural: skitters
Singularskitter
Pluralskitters

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
skirtA1skitskittishskittleskive
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