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skeeter

skeeter noun: a mosquito.

Noun

skeeter (plural skeeters)

  1. (US, informal) A mosquito.
    • One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on
      And the swamp water overflowed.
      Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist
      Doctor Jackson was the first to go.1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford

Verb

skeeter (third-person singular simple present skeeters, present participle skeetering, simple past and past participle skeetered)

  1. To skitter.
    • The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    • They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Skeeter

Skeeter

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Skeeter

Skeeter

  1. (Southern US) A popular nickname for individuals with various different first names.

Examples of skeeter in a sentence

  • The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:
  • Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:
  • A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:

Forms of skeeter

Noun
pluralskeeters
Verb
third-person singular presentskeeters
present participleskeetering
past participleskeetered
pastskeetered

Origin of skeeter

Clipping of a variant pronunciation of mosquito. Compare tater, mater.

From skeeter (mosquito).

Words formed from skeeter

Phrases with skeeter

Questions about skeeter

What does skeeter mean?
Skeeter means a mosquito.
How do you use skeeter in a sentence?
The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.
What part of speech is skeeter?
Skeeter can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of skeeter?
The plural of skeeter is skeeters.

Words near skeeter in the dictionary

  1. skeesicks
  2. skeet
  3. skeet shooting
  4. Skeete
  5. skeeted
  6. skeeter
  7. skeeter hawk
  8. skeeter hawks
  9. skeeter syndrome
  10. skeetered
  11. skeetering

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