skits

Noun

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance done by amateurs.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.1882, Leslie Stephen, Swift
3. (obsolete) 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
4. 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
5. 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

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