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skippets

skippets is the plural of skippet.

Meaning of skippet

Noun

skippet (plural skippets)

  1. (obsolete) A small boat; a skiff.
    • Vpon the banck they sitting did espy / A daintie damzell, dressing of her heare, / By whom a litle skippet floting did appeare1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14
  2. A small, round box used for keeping documents and seals or for covering seals attached to documents

Questions about skippets

What is skippets the plural of?
Skippets is the plural of skippet.

Words near skippets in the dictionary

  1. skippers
  2. skippership
  3. skippest
  4. skippet
  5. skippeth
  6. skippets
  7. skippier
  8. skippiest
  9. skippin'
  10. skipping
  11. skipping a beat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skippets (page history and authors); skippet (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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