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verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.Examples: "I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness."; "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."Synonyms: scamper, scurryintransitive
2. (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.Examples: "Both "Dark Snow" and "Aurelia" [by AFI] feature subtle washes of brittle piano à la Decemberunderground, while "She Speaks The Language" boasts a skittering electronic underbelly, and eerie synths are suspended like low clouds in "Above The Bridge.""intransitive
3. (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.Examples: ""Skittering," continued the Professor, "is practiced with a strong line about the length of the rod, to which is affixed a small trolling-spoon, a minnow, or a piece of pork-rind cut in the rude semblance of a small fish. The boat is poled along, as in ‘bobbing,’ but farther out in the stream, when the angler, standing in the bow, ‘skitters’ or skips the spoon or bait over the surface just at the edge of the weeds."Synonyms: skip, skitetransitive
noun (English)
1. (also figuratively) A skittering movement.Examples: "A skitter of activity. A skitter of gooseflesh."; "I had seen an aerial helix of raptors, hawks and harriers riding a thermal, and below them a skitter of ringed plover and other waders, together with more kingfishers than I had ever seen before."; "Each day that I went, he stood off by himself, in solitude, came politely to the tee on his own, whacked to the right and left in a skitter of balls, his hair pinched in a clubhouse golf cap that didn't fit, his mouth in grim determination to not make an utter fool of himself, his golf clubs' vinyl bag with the ticket attached to signal his beginner's fees were paid."alsofiguratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to have diarrhea.Examples: ""[…] I'd like you to give the calves two heaped tablespoonfuls [of Epsom salts] three times a day." / "Oh 'ell, you'll skitter the poor buggers to death!" / "Maybe so, but there's nothing else for it," I said."Northern-EnglandScotlandtransitive
2. (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.Examples: "As a symptomatic phenomenon, Diarrhœa is skittering, i.e., the discharges are composed of water, intermingled with particles of imperfectly digested food; from two to six or eight discharges may thus take place, and it is an invariable precursor of constipation."; "And when health problems struck, as they inevitably would, no matter how attentive the farmer, the tree had to be nursed until it was better. […] Jeez, and I'd thought mothering week-old orphan calves back in Scotland had been a headache! Still, at least a tree couldn't skitter diarrhoea down the front of your jeans, or bellow to be bucket-fed warm milk in the middle of the night, so that was a bonus."Northern-EnglandScotlandintransitive
noun (English)
1. (Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.Examples: "I can't give it my immediate attention, as the cow has the skitter (diarrhoea) and I'm waiting on the Vit (vet)."; "Shaking but making herself stand there while skitter ran down the inside of her legs. She learnt German early from Anna. Durchfall easier to spell than Diarrhoea. Falling liquid brown."Northern-EnglandScotlanduncountable
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