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▪ I. ˈsquitter, n. Now dial. and colloq.
[f. the vb. Cf. skitter n.1]
1. Diarrhœa. Usually in pl. Cf. skitter n.1 1.
1664Cotton Scarron. i. (1715) 7 It Bounces, Foams, and Froths and Flitters, As if 'twere troubled with the Squitters. 1691Mrs. D'Anvers Academia 45 Then, as if troubled with the Squitters, Away they feque it to St. Peters. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 357 Skutta, Skitta, Squitter, these words are pretty nearly the same; and imply a lashness or diarrhœa, especially in a horse or cow. 1841–in midland and southern dial. glossaries (in form squitters). 1958P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 131 ‘Aren't you sleeping?’ ‘I get the squitters pretty regularly.’ 1976A. Price War Game 13, I reckon squitters was queen [of the battlefield]. More of the poor bastards crapped themselves to death than killed each other. 1981Ld. Harewood Tongs & Bones ii. 37 We went incessantly to those over⁓public latrines... My squitters were at their worst.
2. Radar. Random pulses produced by a transponder in the absence of interrogating signals.
1958Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers CV. b. Suppl. No. 8. 299/2 An average of 2700 pulses/sec are produced by the trigger circuit. These pulses are of constant amplitude and shape, but entirely random in time spacing and are known as ‘squitter’. 1976P. Honold Secondary Radar i. 67 If the dynamic characteristics of the receiver are too low, the message transmitted may be falsified.., should the signal level be very high. This..will also cause additional dead times—if these are triggered by interference pulses (squitter).
▪ II. ˈsquitter, v. Now dial.
[Imitative (cf. squit v.), or alteration of skitter v.1]
1. trans. and intr. To squirt; to spatter, splutter.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 102 Inck-squittring and printing against me. 1809Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. 144 Skwitter, scatter, or sputter. 1828–in dial. glossaries (Yks. and Som.). 1897D'Esterre-Keeling Return to Nature viii, Then he said, looking at the squirt, ‘This squittered’. ‘You didn't make it squitter, did you?’
2. intr. To void thin excrement.
1611Florio, Squaccarare, to squatter, to squirt or lash it out behind after a purgation; to squitter. 1671Skinner, To squitter, forire. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 313 And here the Mob make 'em squitter and tremble. 1719Boyer Dict. Royal i, Foirer,..to squitter. 1886–in dial. glossaries (Som., Devon, Derby).
Hence ˈsquitterer, ˈsquittering vbl. n.
In quot. 1902 as imitative of a sound.
1611Florio, Squacchera, a squattring soft turde, a squittring. 1737Ozell Rabelais I. 255 note, The laxative Quality of the White Grape, called for that very Reason Foirard (Squitterer). 1902Sir H. Johnston Uganda I. i. 16 Hissings and squitterings and splashings..of those [birds] who are starting on flight. |