| 单词 | skitter |
| 释义 | skitter (once / 20957 pages) v When someone or something moves in a rapid, light way, you can say they skitter. Your cat might spend hours fascinated by the bugs that skitter across your window. Little kids will usually skitter onto a playground, moving much more slowly when it's time to leave. And while older cats spend much of the day sleeping lazily, playful kittens will skitter crazily around the house if you give them a crumpled ball of paper to play with. Skitter comes from an old verb, skite, "to dart or run quickly," probably from a Scandinavian root. WORD FAMILYskitter: skittered, skittering, skitters USAGE EXAMPLESFor satire to work well, it has to come from darkness but skitter through that darkness with the lightest of touches. Salon(Nov 20, 2016) The weather was sunny, crisp, cool; dried leaves, russet and umber, skittered across the walk. The New Yorker(Nov 17, 2016) Two, three and suddenly dozens skitter up and down trees, swinging from branches, cautiously checking us out before darting off. Washington Post(Nov 10, 2016) 1v move about or proceed hurriedly Syn|Hypo|Hyper scamper, scurry, scuttle crab scurry sideways like a crab run move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time 2v glide easily along a surface Hyper glide move smoothly and effortlessly 3v twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water Hyper twitch move or pull with a sudden motion 4v cause to skip over a surface Syn|Hyper skim, skip throw propel through the air |
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