Skitter

Definition: Skitter

Skitter

Verb

1. To move about or proceed hurriedly: "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.".

2. Glide easily along a surface.

3. Cause to skip over a surface: "Skip a stone across the pond".

4. Twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "skitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Synonyms: Skitter

Books

• A Skitter, a Stone, and a Song (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

shket lehtë, çik (dab, graze, touch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тичам (chase, course, go after, leg it, lick, race, run, run about, scamper about, scurry, tear, tear along), втурвам се (dart, dash, flounce in, hurl, intrude, rush, streak off, tear, tear along), нося се (be rife, bound, drift, float, hover, rack, resound, ride, roll, sail, sashay, skim, slip, spin along, sweep, wear, wing), едва докосвам (skim), леко докосвам (skim), плъзгам се (ride, skid, skim, slip), избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, take flight), движа въдицата ниско над водата. (various references)

Czech

lovit ryby (fish). (various references)

German

rutschen (crawl, crumble, glide, move over, move up, shove over, shove up, skid, slide, slip, slither, to skid, to slide, to slip, work down), dahinjagen. (various references)

Hungarian

szedi a lábát (to hare, to skitter, to stir one's stump). (various references)

Italian

sfiorare una superficie. (various references)

Pig Latin

itterskay.(various references)

Portuguese

escorregar (glide, glissade, skid, slide, slip, slither), deslizar (glide, glissade, pass, roll). (various references)

Russian 

легко и быстро нестись, быстро нестись. (various references)

Spanish

pasar rozando el agua. (various references)

Swedish

rusa omkring (chivy, hurry-scurry, scuffle), ila fram. (various references)

Turkish

suda sıçrayarak gitmek, su sıçratarak gitmek, sekerek gitmek, sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, squirt, start up, take off, vault), ok gibi fırlamak (shoot ahead, shoot off). (various references)

Ukrainian

легко і швидко мчати. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "skitter": skittered, skitterier, skitteriest, skittering, skitters, skittery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Skitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esciter, kitter, scitor, shitter, Sikita, skaftar, skeeter, skite, skiter, skitten, skittere, skittery, skritter, skyte, skyttel, suiter. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: kiters, sitter, strike, titers, titres, trikes, triste.

-2 letters: keirs, kiers, kiter, kites, rites, siker, skier, skirt, skite, stirk, tiers, tikes, tires, titer, titre, treks, trets, tries, trike, trite.

-3 letters: erst, ires, irks, keir, kier, kirs, kist, kite, kits, kris, reis, rest, rets, rise, risk, rite, sett, sike, sire, site, skit, stet, stir, test.

+1 letter: knitters, skitters, skittery, trinkets.

+2 letters: karateist, keratitis, skittered, strikeout, trickiest, trickster.

+3 letters: antistrike, interknits, karateists, meterstick, poststrike, racketiest, ricketiest, rickettsia, skitterier, skittering, skywritten, streakiest, strikeouts, taperstick, trickliest, tricksiest, tricksters, trinketers.

+4 letters: buttermilks, keratitides, ketosteroid, kickstarted, metersticks, rickettsiae, rickettsial, rickettsias, skitteriest, tapersticks, trinketries.

+5 letters: blatherskite, keratotomies, ketosteroids, latticeworks, straitjacket, taskmistress.