squitn.¹

Brit.

/skwɪt/, U.S.

/skwɪt/

Etymology: Perhaps related to squit v. Compare also skit n.²

dialect and slang.

1. A diminutive or insignificant person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Squit, a word of supreme contempt for a very diminutive person. ‘A paltry squit!’

1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. (at cited word) ‘A little squit of a thing’ is said disparagingly of a somewhat diminutive and not pleasing young woman.

1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii He's not half a bad little squit.

1909 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Nov. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 160 Some little squit of a nervous boy who can cry and scream like a burlesque of Eugene.

1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 17 Johnny's..a man, at all events, and not a little squit of a thing like your Bunny.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxi. 389 Miserable scrofulous little squit!

1929 G. W. Deeping Roper's Row ix. § 3 That little squit of a chap. I know them little clever squits.

1947 E. Coxhead Play Toward iv. 102 It's impossible, darling. That—that little squit—and Peggy Jacques!

1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 11 I was left in the hands of a second year prep boy, my ‘nursemaid’, to be introduced to the way of life of a new boy or ‘squitt’ as he was called.

2. Stupid or silly talk; nonsense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 55 Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver.

1959 A. Wesker Roots i. 26 Love? I don't believe in any of that squit—we just got married.

1976 Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 6/8 Dont talk squit.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

squitn.²

Brit.

/skwɪt/, U.S.

/skwɪt/

Etymology: ? Shortened form of squeteague n. or squetee n.

U.S.

= squeteague n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague)

bass1530

trout1604

weakfish1686

sea bass1765

corvina1787

salmon1798

sheep's head1836

squeteague1838

grey trout1856

white trout1861

roncador1867

shad-trout1884

squit1884

bastard trout1888

wheat-fish1888

yellowfin1888

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 362.

1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 260 It is done either from a sail-boat or row-boat, and a squit is a choice bait.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

squitn.³

Etymology: < squit v.; perhaps related to squit n.¹

dialect and colloquial.

Diarrhoea. Now only in plural the squits. See squitter n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea

diarrhoea1398

squirtc1460

hurl?a1513

gurry?1523

lasking1527

laxity1528

lax?1529

lask1542

skittera1585

looseness1586

scouring1597

laxativeness1610

laxness1634

squitter1664

lurry1689

thorough-go-nimble1694

wherry-go-nimble1766

the trots1808

cholerine1832

squit1841

choleriform1884

tummy1888

gippy tummy1915

shit1928

Rhea sisters1935

belly wuk1943

tomtit1944

run1946

Montezuma's revenge1955

Aztec hop1962

turista1970

1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 576 Squitt, squitters, looseness of the body.

1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof xi. 170 I thought you had me in the car... You fair gave me the squits.

1988 D. Lodge Nice Work iv. iii. 166 ‘Olive oil doesn't agree with me.’ ‘Gives you the squits, does it?’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

squitv.

Etymology: ? Imitative. Compare squitter v.

Now dialect.

transitive. To squirt.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt liquid [verb (transitive)]

sprout1578

spirt1582

squirt1583

squit1594

spurt1601

spirt1646

jeta1684

scoot1805

squitter1809

skeet1880

spritz1886

skoosh1985

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings C iij I doubt not but once in the yeare you squit out a commoditie to ingrate vpon the Gentlemans necessitie you meane.

1873– in Eng. Dial. Dict.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

n.¹a1825

n.²1884

n.³1841

v.1594

单词	squit
释义	squitn.¹ Brit. /skwɪt/, U.S. /skwɪt/ Etymology: Perhaps related to squit v. Compare also skit n.² dialect and slang. 1. A diminutive or insignificant person. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Squit, a word of supreme contempt for a very diminutive person. ‘A paltry squit!’ 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. (at cited word) ‘A little squit of a thing’ is said disparagingly of a somewhat diminutive and not pleasing young woman. 1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah iii. viii He's not half a bad little squit. 1909 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Nov. in Lett. to Granville Barker (1956) 160 Some little squit of a nervous boy who can cry and scream like a burlesque of Eugene. 1914 G. B. Shaw Misalliance 17 Johnny's..a man, at all events, and not a little squit of a thing like your Bunny. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxi. 389 Miserable scrofulous little squit! 1929 G. W. Deeping Roper's Row ix. § 3 That little squit of a chap. I know them little clever squits. 1947 E. Coxhead Play Toward iv. 102 It's impossible, darling. That—that little squit—and Peggy Jacques! 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 11 I was left in the hands of a second year prep boy, my ‘nursemaid’, to be introduced to the way of life of a new boy or ‘squitt’ as he was called. 2. Stupid or silly talk; nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norfolk (Eastern Daily Press) 55 Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver. 1959 A. Wesker Roots i. 26 Love? I don't believe in any of that squit—we just got married. 1976 Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 6/8 Dont talk squit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squitn.² Brit. /skwɪt/, U.S. /skwɪt/ Etymology: ? Shortened form of squeteague n. or squetee n. U.S. = squeteague n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague) bass1530 trout1604 weakfish1686 sea bass1765 corvina1787 salmon1798 sheep's head1836 squeteague1838 grey trout1856 white trout1861 roncador1867 shad-trout1884 squit1884 bastard trout1888 wheat-fish1888 yellowfin1888 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 362. 1902 D. S. Jordan & B. W. Evermann Amer. Food & Game Fishes 260 It is done either from a sail-boat or row-boat, and a squit is a choice bait. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). squitn.³ Etymology: < squit v.; perhaps related to squit n.¹ dialect and colloquial. Diarrhoea. Now only in plural the squits. See squitter n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea diarrhoea1398 squirtc1460 hurl?a1513 gurry?1523 lasking1527 laxity1528 lax?1529 lask1542 skittera1585 looseness1586 scouring1597 laxativeness1610 laxness1634 squitter1664 lurry1689 thorough-go-nimble1694 wherry-go-nimble1766 the trots1808 cholerine1832 squit1841 choleriform1884 tummy1888 gippy tummy1915 shit1928 Rhea sisters1935 belly wuk1943 tomtit1944 run1946 Montezuma's revenge1955 Aztec hop1962 turista1970 1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 576 Squitt, squitters, looseness of the body. 1976 M. Maguire Scratchproof xi. 170 I thought you had me in the car... You fair gave me the squits. 1988 D. Lodge Nice Work iv. iii. 166 ‘Olive oil doesn't agree with me.’ ‘Gives you the squits, does it?’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2019). squitv. Etymology: ? Imitative. Compare squitter v. Now dialect. transitive. To squirt. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt liquid [verb (transitive)] sprout1578 spirt1582 squirt1583 squit1594 spurt1601 spirt1646 jeta1684 scoot1805 squitter1809 skeet1880 spritz1886 skoosh1985 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings C iij I doubt not but once in the yeare you squit out a commoditie to ingrate vpon the Gentlemans necessitie you meane. 1873– in Eng. Dial. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.¹a1825n.²1884n.³1841v.1594
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