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▪ I. squit, n.1 dial. and slang.|skwɪt|
[Perh. related to squit v. Cf. also skit n.2]
1. A diminutive or insignificant person.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia 322 Squit, a word of supreme contempt for a very diminutive person. ‘A paltry squit!’ 1847Halliw. s.v., ‘A little squit of a thing’ is said disparagingly of a somewhat diminutive and not pleasing young woman. 1889‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii, He's not half a bad little squit. 1909G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Nov. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 160 Some little squit of a nervous boy who can cry and scream like a burlesque of Eugene. 1928A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxi. 389 Miserable scrofulous little squit! 1947E. Coxhead Play Toward iv. 102 It's impossible, darling. That—that little squit—and Peggy Jacques! 1976J. Snow Cricket Rebel 11, I was left in the hands of a second year prep boy, my ‘nursemaid’, to be introduced to the way of life of a new boy or ‘squitt’ as he was called.
2. Stupid or silly talk; nonsense.
1893H. T. Cozens-Hardy Brd. Norf. 55 Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver. 1959A. Wesker Roots i. 26 Love? I don't believe in any of that squit—we just got married. 1976Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 6/8 Dont talk squit.
▪ II. squit, n.2 U.S.|skwɪt|
[? Shortened form of squeteague or squetee.]
= squeteague.
1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 362. 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 260 It is done either from a sail-boat or row-boat, and a squit is a choice bait.
▪ III. squit, n.3 dial. and colloq.
[f. squit v.; perh. related to squit n.1]
Diarrhoea. Now only in pl. the squits. See squitter n. 1.
1841C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 576 Squitt, squitters, looseness of the body. 1976M. Maguire Scratchproof xi. 170, I thought you had me in the car... You fair gave me the squits. 1988D. Lodge Nice Work iv. iii. 166 ‘Olive oil doesn't agree with me.’ ‘Gives you the squits, does it?’
▪ IV. squit, v. Now dial.
[? Imitative. Cf. squitter v.]
trans. To squirt.
1594O. B. Quest. Profit. Concern. C iij, I doubt not but once in the yeare you squit out a commoditie to ingrate vpon the Gentlemans necessitie you meane. 1873–in Eng. Dial. Dict. |