skit

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish,^[1] which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.^[2]

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance done by amateurs.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • 1882, Leslie Stephen, Swift:

     That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

3. (obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
   • 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

4. A short, sharp shower (of rain).
   • 1880, Richard Jefferies, Round about a Great Estate, page 9:

     ... there come on a 'skit' of rain, and I made for one of his barns for shelter.

   • 1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Novel, page 373:

     Suddenly there came a little volley of sharp drops - not of the liquid he desired - dashed into the trumpeter's red face , and against the back of the parson's hat - the first skit of rain, that seemed rather to rise as if from a blow-pipe, than fall from the clouds.

   • 1929, Henry Williamson, The Pathway, page 222:

     Diana did not obey him, but stood in the rain. 'I don't care for a skit of rain.' 'Get in, quick.' When she did not move he sprang up, and catching her up in his arms, set her down in the hollow.

5. Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.
   • 1749, William Ellis, A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, Made on Sheep, Grass-lambs, and House-lambs: Or, ... the Shepherd's Sure Guide: ... In Three Books. By William Ellis, ..., page 355:

     The Cause and Nature of the Skit, or Scour, of Sheep and Lambs.

   • 1799, Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, page 376:

     […] quality in the seeds which he cannot account for, that of killing lambs at about ten days old; they die of the skit, or scouring; and it is particularly experienced in new inclosures; […]

   • 1873, The Farmer's Magazine, page 43:

     ... the "skit." A practised eye can generally tell for two or three days before it commences what is coming on. The lambs look dull, their coats are staring. Generally the scour is of a dark greenish colour - sometimes almost […]

   • 1900, Thomas Hartwell Horne, The Complete Grazier and Farmers' and Cattle-breeders' Assistant: Forming a Compendium of Husbandry, page 1051:

     ... lambs, and on the appearance of the skit or scour, the necessity for a change of food is indicated.

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skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)

1. (transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
2. (regional, intransitive) To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
   • 1873, Robert Tannahill, The Soldier's Return: A Scottish Interlude in Two Acts. With Other Poems and Songs, page 12:

     Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […]

   • 1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, page 64:

     The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough.

   • 2002 November 26, Sue Miller, While I Was Gone, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 164:

     I could feel her eyes skitting over to me after she said something that might have shocked me - but I stayed quiet.

   • 2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all.

• skittish

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

From English skirt.

skit

1. skirt

• skitj (Föhr-Amrum)
• schite (Mooring)

From Proto-West Germanic *skītan.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [skɪt]

skit

1. (Sylt) to shit, defecate

• Skit

From Old Norse skítr m, from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Akin to English shit.

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːt/, /sçiːt/

skit m (definite singular skiten, indefinite plural skitar, definite plural skitane)

1. shit, muck, feces
2. dirt, rubbish (something useless)

• drit

• renneskit
• skitrot

From Old Norse skit n.

• skitt

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪːt/, /sçɪːt/

skit n (definite singular skitet, uncountable)

1. dirt, filth

skit

1. inflection of skita:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Cognate with Danish skid, Icelandic skítur, Dutch schijt, German Scheiße and English shit.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɧiːt/

skit c

1. (vulgar) shit (excrement)

   Synonyms: bajs, avföring, exkrement, fekalier, träck, dret

   Det är skit på mattan

   There's shit on the carpet

   Det luktar skit här inne

   It smells like shit in here

2. (colloquial, vulgar) crap, shit (undesirable material)

   Ta bort den där skiten från skrivbordet

   Get that crap off the desk

3. (colloquial, vulgar) shit (something or someone undesirable or disagreeable, more generally)

   Jag börjar tröttna på den här skiten

   I'm getting tired of this shit

   Du är bara en liten skit

   You're just a little shit

4. (colloquial, vulgar) (something) very bad (in adjectival and adverbial usage)

   Synonym: piss

   Filmen var skit

   The movie was shit

   Det här smakar skit

   This tastes like shit

5. (in the definite) the shit (as an intensifier)

   banka skiten ur någon

   beat the shit out of someone

6. (colloquial, vulgar, in negations) shit (anything)

   Synonyms: piss, dugg, dyft, jota, skvatt, smack

   Jag förstår inte ett skit

   I don't understand shit

Note that you "don't understand a shit" rather than "don't understand shit" in Swedish.

• skita

skit

1. (colloquial, vulgar, sometimes followed by också) shit, damnit

   Det kommer regna. Skit också!

   It's gonna rain. Damnit!

   Jävla skit!

   Fucking shit!

Less vulgar when followed by också, but still colloquial.

skit

1. imperative of skita

• skit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

• sikt, tiks