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skitting

skitting is the present participle and gerund of skit.

Meaning of skit

Verb

skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)

  1. (Ireland, Merseyside, transitive, Liverpool) 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
  2. (intransitive, regional) 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

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Questions about skitting

What is skitting the present participle and gerund of?
Skitting is the present participle and gerund of skit.

Words near skitting in the dictionary

  1. skitteringly
  2. skitterings
  3. skitterish
  4. skitters
  5. skittery
  6. skitting
  7. skittish
  8. skittishly
  9. skittishness
  10. skittle
  11. skittle alley

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