skittern.¹

Brit.

/ˈskɪtə/, U.S.

/ˈskɪdər/, Scottish English

/ˈskɪtər/

Forms: Also 1800s dialect skitta.

Etymology: < skitter v.¹

Chiefly Scottish and dialect.

1. Diarrhoea; looseness or laxity of the bowels. Now frequently in plural. (Also colloquial.)

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea

diarrhoea1398

squirtc1460

hurl?a1513

gurry?1523

lasking1527

laxity1528

lax?1529

lask1542

skittera1585

looseness1586

scouring1597

laxativeness1610

laxness1634

squitter1664

lurry1689

thorough-go-nimble1694

wherry-go-nimble1766

the trots1808

cholerine1832

squit1841

choleriform1884

tummy1888

gippy tummy1915

shit1928

Rhea sisters1935

belly wuk1943

tomtit1944

run1946

Montezuma's revenge1955

Aztec hop1962

turista1970

a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 244 To heale thee of thy skitter.

1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxii. 431 They et green grapes. They all five got the howlin' skitters. Run out ever' ten minutes.

1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 159 Skitters, squitters, diarrhœa.

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 180 Squitters, skitters, a symptom of dysentery and other stomach troubles.

2. Thin excrement. Also in combinations.

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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] > of specific type > thin

squirt1580

squittering1611

skitter1692

1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 101 A Cake unturn'd, that is, it's stonehard on one side, and skitter-raw on the other.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 16 A Spoonful of Skitter will spill [= spoil] a Potful of Skink.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

skittern.²

Etymology: < skitter v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter.

A light scampering or skipping movement or the sound caused by this.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > lightly along or near a surface

graze1692

sweep1820

skima1851

skiffing1866

skitter1905

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > sound of footsteps > scampering

brattlea1758

skitter1905

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping lightly or skipping > a skip

scope13..

skipc1440

skitter1905

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light

trip-and-go1532

trip1585

tripping1594

trippingness1827

patting1860

skitter1959

1905 Scribner's Mag. July 1 The slim shell trailed with dying headway to the skitter of the resting oars.

1959 ‘E. Allen’ Man who chose Death xiii. 130 A quick skitter of footsteps like mice in the rafters.

1961 S. Bunce No Sainted City xxiii. 170 A confusion of sounds. A skitter of light footfalls.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

skitterv.¹

Forms: Also Middle English skiter-, Middle English skyter-.

Etymology: A frequentative of skite v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter.

Scottish and dialect.

intransitive. To void thin excrement.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > diarrhoea

skittera1400

squirt1530

scutter1565

squatter1598

squitter1611

shoota1642

skit1805

run1849

a1400 Langtoft's Chron. (Rolls) 2 252 Skiterende Scottes, Telle i for sottes, And wrecches unwar.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 499 It skittered and skarted; they skirled ilk ane.

1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 5 Thur Yowes are Clow-clagg'd, they skitter sayr.

Derivatives

ˈskittering n.¹ and adj.¹ (also in extended use).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > diarrhoea > voiding

skitteringa1400

squattering1598

a1400 [see main sense].

c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 14 Seeing there was but a Skittering Lass between him and the Crown.

1682 A. Martindale in J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. No. 11 Some, when the strength of Marle is worn out by long Tillage, strengthen it with a new Supply, but then they ordinarily set it thin (which they call skittering).

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 20 A skittering Cow in the Loan would ay have many Marrows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

skitterv.²

Forms: Also skither.

Etymology: apparently a frequentative < skite v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter.

a. intransitive. To move or run rapidly; to hurry about; to scamper off. Frequently with adverbs.

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper

scuttlea1450

scuddle1577

curry1608

scamper1691

brattle1725

scurry1810

chevya1825

skitter1845

skelter1852

hurry and scurry1857

skeeter1964

1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 175 On they went, skittering, bowling, sluice-like, wave-like.

1875 Toxie, a Tale I. vi. 100 Neither did he and I skitter at sixty miles an hour.

1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell lii Up on the first horse we could lay hold of, and skittered on the heels of the rest of them.

1903 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 363/2 She skittered about in the bracken, being a 'citable child.

1922 H. Quick Vandemark's Folly viii. 143 I remembered..how she had skithered back to the carriage.

1929 S. Leacock Iron Man v. 205 When we drive the ball..skithers off sideways.

1935 M. G. Eberhart Cases of Susan Dare 64 The monkey darted out from under the sofa and was suddenly skittering across the room again.

1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding iii. 178 Frances watched the Portuguese who..played a mock piano on the counter to the music-box tune. He swayed as he played and his fingers skittered up and down the counter.

1949 B. Marshall To Every Man a Penny xlix. 151 The limousines, the taxicabs, the lorries and the buses roared round the church, skittering away to Neuilly, Auteuil and Montmartre.

1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 57 The boys began to swallow their Adam's apples, their eyes skittering about in still heads.

1976 Church Times 26 Nov. (Bk. Suppl.) p. iv/2 He skittered through a fantastic mass of scientific evidence for the scarcely believable and downright unbelievable.

1977 Meanjin 36 i. 68 I skither down barefeet first.

1977 Listener 17 Feb. 215/3 Not only is the tenor-saxophonist playing his usualy devious game but..Basie is joining in... Both men skittering around the melody line in high good humour.

1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 33/1 I found, skittering in nervous computer printout across the bottom of my bill, the words ‘Thank you very much for your prompt payment’.

b. To skip or skim along a surface, with occasional rapid contact. Also with other adverbs and adverbial phrases. Originally dialect.

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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > lightly over a surface

skim1591

graze1632

skiff1725

mirla1838

skitter1847

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > move lightly over or along

scum1513

shave1513

sweep1538

raze1555

grazea1616

frizzle1634

brush1647

brush1674

to brush (a thing) over1700

skim1796

skiff1807

scuff1818

skitter1885

swab1892

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. (at cited word) A countryman who was leading me up a steep hill, when we came to a place which was inaccessible, said ‘We had better skitter under here, and it won't be so steep.’ (Kent).

1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips 56 Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down.

1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 483/1 Leeak at mah scoperil, hoo it skithers across teeable.

1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxv. 298 A second man flew out and skittered along the floor on his back.

1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle ii. i. 40 The little whitish-silver flying fish skittering over the ship's bow wave.

1956 C. Evans Kanchenjunga xii. 121 Fragments of snow kept skittering down the slope and bombarding the tent.

1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 127/1 The astronauts will start back to the LM—first tossing the universal handling tool..across the black mare, where it may skitter to rest inside a small crater.

1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 21/7 His long blast was deflected by defenseman Jim McKenny's glove and skittered past a surprised Bruce Gamble in goal who was moving the opposite way to cover.

1978 M. Puzo Fools Die ii. 15 He was tired of the glittering red dice skittering across green felt.

a. transitive. U.S. In angling, to draw (a spoon-bait or hook) with a jerking or skipping motion over the surface of the water. Also absol.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish > draw hook over surface

skitter1883

1883 Cent. Mag. July 383/2 The angler, standing in the bow, ‘skitters’ or skips the spoon or bait over the surface just at the edge of the weeds.

1897 Outing 30 221 In skittering with a spoon, some of the fly-fisher's skill..comes into play.

b. In various senses, with reference to the impartation of a rapid or sliding motion (see quots.).

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1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 61 Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails!

1907 Harper's Mag. Feb. 460 The younger boy skittered rocks at a chicken-hawk.

1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 112 The great hooves skittered The Blood Brook's shallows to sheets that glittered.

1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds ii. 22 She produced a 6 × 4 glossy..and skittered it across the desk to me.

1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 54 Edgar Gear blinked and skittered his hand through his hair.

Derivatives

ˈskittered adj.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [adjective] > baited > type of bait

killing1681

skittereda1888

a1888 in Goode Amer. Fishes 37 When taken with a skittered minnow or bright fly on a light rod.

ˈskittering n.² and adj.²

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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > scurrying or scampering

scampering1859

scurrying1862

skittering1883

scuttling1895

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > using other methods

drabble1799

sinking and drawing1838

spinning1855

skittering1883

1883 Cent. Mag. July 383/2 Skittering..is practised with a strong line..to which is affixed a small trolling-spoon.

1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence ii. viii The skittering feet and minute shriek of mice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹a1585

n.²1905

v.¹a1400

v.²1845

单词	skitter
释义	skittern.¹ Brit. /ˈskɪtə/, U.S. /ˈskɪdər/, Scottish English /ˈskɪtər/ Forms: Also 1800s dialect skitta. Etymology: < skitter v.¹ Chiefly Scottish and dialect. 1. Diarrhoea; looseness or laxity of the bowels. Now frequently in plural. (Also colloquial.) ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea diarrhoea1398 squirtc1460 hurl?a1513 gurry?1523 lasking1527 laxity1528 lax?1529 lask1542 skittera1585 looseness1586 scouring1597 laxativeness1610 laxness1634 squitter1664 lurry1689 thorough-go-nimble1694 wherry-go-nimble1766 the trots1808 cholerine1832 squit1841 choleriform1884 tummy1888 gippy tummy1915 shit1928 Rhea sisters1935 belly wuk1943 tomtit1944 run1946 Montezuma's revenge1955 Aztec hop1962 turista1970 a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 244 To heale thee of thy skitter. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath xxii. 431 They et green grapes. They all five got the howlin' skitters. Run out ever' ten minutes. 1940 M. Marples Public School Slang 159 Skitters, squitters, diarrhœa. 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 180 Squitters, skitters, a symptom of dysentery and other stomach troubles. 2. Thin excrement. Also in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] > of specific type > thin squirt1580 squittering1611 skitter1692 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 101 A Cake unturn'd, that is, it's stonehard on one side, and skitter-raw on the other. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 16 A Spoonful of Skitter will spill [= spoil] a Potful of Skink. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). skittern.² Etymology: < skitter v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter. A light scampering or skipping movement or the sound caused by this. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > lightly along or near a surface graze1692 sweep1820 skima1851 skiffing1866 skitter1905 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > sound of footsteps > scampering brattlea1758 skitter1905 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > leaping lightly or skipping > a skip scope13.. skipc1440 skitter1905 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > light trip-and-go1532 trip1585 tripping1594 trippingness1827 patting1860 skitter1959 1905 Scribner's Mag. July 1 The slim shell trailed with dying headway to the skitter of the resting oars. 1959 ‘E. Allen’ Man who chose Death xiii. 130 A quick skitter of footsteps like mice in the rafters. 1961 S. Bunce No Sainted City xxiii. 170 A confusion of sounds. A skitter of light footfalls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019). skitterv.¹ Forms: Also Middle English skiter-, Middle English skyter-. Etymology: A frequentative of skite v.¹Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter. Scottish and dialect. intransitive. To void thin excrement. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > diarrhoea skittera1400 squirt1530 scutter1565 squatter1598 squitter1611 shoota1642 skit1805 run1849 a1400 Langtoft's Chron. (Rolls) 2 252 Skiterende Scottes, Telle i for sottes, And wrecches unwar. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 499 It skittered and skarted; they skirled ilk ane. 1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dialogue in Pure Nat. Dial. 5 Thur Yowes are Clow-clagg'd, they skitter sayr. Derivatives ˈskittering n.¹ and adj.¹ (also in extended use). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > diarrhoea > voiding skitteringa1400 squattering1598 a1400 [see main sense]. c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1683) 14 Seeing there was but a Skittering Lass between him and the Crown. 1682 A. Martindale in J. Houghton Coll. Lett. Improvem. Husb. No. 11 Some, when the strength of Marle is worn out by long Tillage, strengthen it with a new Supply, but then they ordinarily set it thin (which they call skittering). 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 20 A skittering Cow in the Loan would ay have many Marrows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2021). skitterv.² Forms: Also skither. Etymology: apparently a frequentative < skite v.²Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskitter. 1. a. intransitive. To move or run rapidly; to hurry about; to scamper off. Frequently with adverbs. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > go swiftly on foot [verb (intransitive)] > scurry or scamper scuttlea1450 scuddle1577 curry1608 scamper1691 brattle1725 scurry1810 chevya1825 skitter1845 skelter1852 hurry and scurry1857 skeeter1964 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 175 On they went, skittering, bowling, sluice-like, wave-like. 1875 Toxie, a Tale I. vi. 100 Neither did he and I skitter at sixty miles an hour. 1882 R. D. Blackmore Christowell lii Up on the first horse we could lay hold of, and skittered on the heels of the rest of them. 1903 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Sept. 363/2 She skittered about in the bracken, being a 'citable child. 1922 H. Quick Vandemark's Folly viii. 143 I remembered..how she had skithered back to the carriage. 1929 S. Leacock Iron Man v. 205 When we drive the ball..skithers off sideways. 1935 M. G. Eberhart Cases of Susan Dare 64 The monkey darted out from under the sofa and was suddenly skittering across the room again. 1946 C. McCullers Member of Wedding iii. 178 Frances watched the Portuguese who..played a mock piano on the counter to the music-box tune. He swayed as he played and his fingers skittered up and down the counter. 1949 B. Marshall To Every Man a Penny xlix. 151 The limousines, the taxicabs, the lorries and the buses roared round the church, skittering away to Neuilly, Auteuil and Montmartre. 1968 B. Hines Kestrel for Knave 57 The boys began to swallow their Adam's apples, their eyes skittering about in still heads. 1976 Church Times 26 Nov. (Bk. Suppl.) p. iv/2 He skittered through a fantastic mass of scientific evidence for the scarcely believable and downright unbelievable. 1977 Meanjin 36 i. 68 I skither down barefeet first. 1977 Listener 17 Feb. 215/3 Not only is the tenor-saxophonist playing his usualy devious game but..Basie is joining in... Both men skittering around the melody line in high good humour. 1977 New Yorker 24 Oct. 33/1 I found, skittering in nervous computer printout across the bottom of my bill, the words ‘Thank you very much for your prompt payment’. b. To skip or skim along a surface, with occasional rapid contact. Also with other adverbs and adverbial phrases. Originally dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > lightly over a surface skim1591 graze1632 skiff1725 mirla1838 skitter1847 the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move or cause to move progressively in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > move lightly over or along scum1513 shave1513 sweep1538 raze1555 grazea1616 frizzle1634 brush1647 brush1674 to brush (a thing) over1700 skim1796 skiff1807 scuff1818 skitter1885 swab1892 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. (at cited word) A countryman who was leading me up a steep hill, when we came to a place which was inaccessible, said ‘We had better skitter under here, and it won't be so steep.’ (Kent). 1885 T. Roosevelt Hunting Trips 56 Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down. 1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 483/1 Leeak at mah scoperil, hoo it skithers across teeable. 1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxv. 298 A second man flew out and skittered along the floor on his back. 1951 J. C. Fennessy Sonnet in Bottle ii. i. 40 The little whitish-silver flying fish skittering over the ship's bow wave. 1956 C. Evans Kanchenjunga xii. 121 Fragments of snow kept skittering down the slope and bombarding the tent. 1969 New Yorker 12 Apr. 127/1 The astronauts will start back to the LM—first tossing the universal handling tool..across the black mare, where it may skitter to rest inside a small crater. 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 21/7 His long blast was deflected by defenseman Jim McKenny's glove and skittered past a surprised Bruce Gamble in goal who was moving the opposite way to cover. 1978 M. Puzo Fools Die ii. 15 He was tired of the glittering red dice skittering across green felt. 2. a. transitive. U.S. In angling, to draw (a spoon-bait or hook) with a jerking or skipping motion over the surface of the water. Also absol. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > hook fish > draw hook over surface skitter1883 1883 Cent. Mag. July 383/2 The angler, standing in the bow, ‘skitters’ or skips the spoon or bait over the surface just at the edge of the weeds. 1897 Outing 30 221 In skittering with a spoon, some of the fly-fisher's skill..comes into play. b. In various senses, with reference to the impartation of a rapid or sliding motion (see quots.). ΚΠ 1902 R. Kipling Just So Stories 61 Let's say things to the bunnies, and watch 'em skitter their tails! 1907 Harper's Mag. Feb. 460 The younger boy skittered rocks at a chicken-hawk. 1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox 112 The great hooves skittered The Blood Brook's shallows to sheets that glittered. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds ii. 22 She produced a 6 × 4 glossy..and skittered it across the desk to me. 1972 M. J. Bosse Incident at Naha i. 54 Edgar Gear blinked and skittered his hand through his hair. Derivatives ˈskittered adj. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [adjective] > baited > type of bait killing1681 skittereda1888 a1888 in Goode Amer. Fishes 37 When taken with a skittered minnow or bright fly on a light rod. ˈskittering n.² and adj.² ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > scurrying or scampering scampering1859 scurrying1862 skittering1883 scuttling1895 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [noun] > angling > using other methods drabble1799 sinking and drawing1838 spinning1855 skittering1883 1883 Cent. Mag. July 383/2 Skittering..is practised with a strong line..to which is affixed a small trolling-spoon. 1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence ii. viii The skittering feet and minute shriek of mice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹a1585n.²1905v.¹a1400v.²1845
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