skitter

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.

   “I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.”

2. fiil To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.

   “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."”

3. fiil To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
4. isim A skittering movement.

   “A skitter of activity. A skitter of gooseflesh.”

5. fiil To cause to have diarrhea.

   “"[…] 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.”

6. fiil To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

   “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.”

7. isim Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

   “I can't give it my immediate attention, as the cow has the skitter (diarrhoea) and I'm waiting on the Vit (vet).”