skitter

[ skit-er ]

SEE DEFINITION OF skitter

EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR SKITTER

Skitter and spit dust—use it all, but keep us clear for three minutes!

I saw Daniel the Mystic scramble to his feet and skitter about.

He came up at once, and with two-thirds of his body out of the water he began to skitter toward us.

Moving another notch down caused the picture to skitter back and forth on the screen.

He divided with me, told me to fasten one upon the end of my line and skitter it over the water.

WORD ORIGIN

"to run rapidly," 1845, frequentative of skite "to dart, run quickly" (1721), perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse skjota "to shoot, launch, move quickly, avoid (a blow)," or Norwegian dialectal skutla "glide rapidly"); see skittish. As a noun from 1905.