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skeetering

skeetering is the present participle and gerund of skeeter.

Meaning of skeeter

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

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Questions about skeetering

What is skeetering the present participle and gerund of?
Skeetering is the present participle and gerund of skeeter.

Words near skeetering in the dictionary

  1. skeeter
  2. skeeter hawk
  3. skeeter hawks
  4. skeeter syndrome
  5. skeetered
  6. skeetering
  7. skeeters
  8. Skeetes
  9. skeeting
  10. skeeto
  11. skeetos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skeetering (page history and authors); skeeter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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