skitter

Plural: skitters

Verb

Verb Forms: skittered, skittering, skitters

• To move lightly and rapidly along a surface.
• to move about or proceed hurriedly
• glide easily along a surface
• cause to skip over a surface
• twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water
• To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.
• To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
• To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
• To cause to have diarrhea.
• To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

Noun

• A skittering movement.
• Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

Examples

• A skitter of activity. A skitter of gooseflesh.
• I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.
• The quick play of ’SKITTER’ darted across the board, landing on a double letter score.

Synonyms

scamper, scurry, scuttle, skim, skip, skite

Anagrams of skitter