skit
skit noun: a short comic performance done by amateurs.
Noun
skit (plural skits)
- A short comic performance done by amateurs.
- A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
- That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.1882, Leslie Stephen, Swift
- A wanton girl; a wench.
- However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep...1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix
- A short, sharp shower (of rain).
- ... there come on a 'skit' of rain, and I made for one of his barns for shelter.1880, Richard Jefferies, Round about a Great Estate, page 9
- Suddenly there came a little volley of sharp drops - not of the liquid he desired - dashed into the trumpeter's red face , and against the back of the parson's hat - the first skit of rain, that seemed rather to rise as if from a blow-pipe, than fall from the clouds.1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Novel, page 373
- Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.
- The Cause and Nature of the Skit, or Scour, of Sheep and Lambs.1749, William Ellis, A Compleat System of Experienced Improvements, Made on Sheep, Grass-lambs, and House-lambs: Or, ... the Shepherd's Sure Guide: ... In Three Books. By William Ellis, ..., page 355
- […] quality in the seeds which he cannot account for, that of killing lambs at about ten days old; they die of the skit, or scouring; and it is particularly experienced in new inclosures; […]1799, Arthur Young, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln: Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal...
Verb
skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)
- To make fun of.
- "If they wor all their lives goin' to chapel they cudn't have behaved thimsilves betther nor they did." "Ay, Paddy, mavourneen; I'll be bail they didn't skit and laugh the way some people would be doin'." "Laugh! not thimsilves, indeed."1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 515
- To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
- Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […]1873, Robert Tannahill, The Soldier's Return: A Scottish Interlude in Two Acts. With Other Poems and Songs, page 12
- The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough.1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, page 64
skit meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
skit in Hindi
- स्किट, स्किट करें, स्किट करना
skit in Tamil
- சிறு வசைத்துணுக்கு குவை
skit in Marathi
- स्किट, स्किट करा, स्किट करणे
skit in Urdu
- سکٹ
More languagesFewer languages
- skit in Bengali
- ক্ষুদ্র ব্যঙ্গাত্মক নাটক, নকশা
- skit in Telugu
- స్కిట్, స్కిట్ చెయ్యడానికి, స్కిట్ చేయడం
- skit in Malayalam
- പ്രഹസനം, പരിഹാസരചന, ഹാസ്യനാടകം, ഡിമം
- skit in Kannada
- ಸ್ಕಿಟ್
- skit in Punjabi
- ਸਕਿੱਟ, ਸਕਿਟ, ਸਕਿੱਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- skit in Gujarati
- સ્કિટ, સ્કિટ કરો, સ્કિટ કરવા માટે
- skit in Odia
- ସ୍କିଟ୍, ସ୍କିଟ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ, ସ୍କିଟ କରନ୍ତୁ
- skit in Nepali
- स्किट, स्किट्, स्किट गर्न
Examples of skit in a sentence
- 'I don't care for a skit of rain.' 'Get in, quick.' When she did not move he sprang up, and catching her up in his arms, set her down in the hollow.1929, Henry Williamson, The Pathway, page 222:
- ... the "skit." A practised eye can generally tell for two or three days before it commences what is coming on.1873, The Farmer's Magazine, page 43:
- ... lambs, and on the appearance of the skit or scour, the necessity for a change of food is indicated.1900, Thomas Hartwell Horne, The Complete Grazier and Farmers' and Cattle-breeders' Assistant: Forming a Compendium of Husbandry, page 1051:
- I could feel her eyes skitting over to me after she said something that might have shocked me - but I stayed quiet.2002 November 26, Sue Miller, While I Was Gone, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 164:
Forms of skit
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | skits |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | skits |
| present participle | skitting |
| past participle | skitted |
| past | skitted |
Origin of skit
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.
Words formed from skit
Words that rhyme with skit
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Questions about skit
- What does skit mean?
- Skit means a short comic performance done by amateurs.
- What is skit in Hindi?
- Skit in Hindi is स्किट, स्किट करें, स्किट करना. See Skit meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use skit in a sentence?
- 'I don't care for a skit of rain.' 'Get in, quick.' When she did not move he sprang up, and catching her up in his arms, set her down in the hollow.
- What part of speech is skit?
- Skit can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of skit?
- The plural of skit is skits.
Words near skit in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: skit (page history and authors); skit (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); skit (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); skit (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); skit (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skit (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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