skitter

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skitter englannista suomeksi

  1. viilettää, liihotella

  2. pyrähtää, kipittää

  3. vetää viehettä pintaa pitkin

  4. singahtaa

  1. kipittää, viilettää

  2. kipittää

skitter englanniksi

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

  2. (ux)

  3. 1882, (w), “Waterfowl”, in ''Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Hunting Trips on the Prairie and in the Mountains'', New York, N.Y.; London: The Co-operative Publication Society, (OCLC); republished as ''Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains'', Medora edition, New York, N.Y.; London: (w), Press Building|The Knickerbocker Press, 1885, (OCLC), page 56:

  4. 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.
  5. To make a scratching or 2|scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.

  6. (quote-web)'', while "She Speaks The Language" boasts a skittering electronic underbelly, and eerie synths are suspended like low clouds in "Above The Bridge."

  7. To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.

  8. (quote-book)

  9. A skittering movement.

  10. (quote-journal)

  11. (quote-book)|year=2010|pages=213–214|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=zKna1M0f-IsC&pg=PA213|isbn=978-0-8007-3415-2|passage=With a skitter of excitement, Marcy glanced at the clock on the parlor mantel. It chimed ten, and her gaze flicked to the face of her husband as he lounged in his favorite chair with a newspaper in his lap.

  12. To cause to have diarrhea.

  13. (quote-book) James Alfred Wight|title=If Only They Could Talk|location=London|publisher=Joseph (publisher)|Michael Joseph|year=1970|isbn=978-0-7181-0763-5|passage=" I'd like you to give the calves two heaped tablespoonfuls 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.

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

  15. (quote-book) 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.

  16. ''Often'' (l): the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.