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单词 squitter
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squittern.

Etymology: < squitter v. Compare skitter n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquitter.
Now dialect and colloquial.
1. Diarrhoea. Usually in plural. Cf. skitter n.1 1.
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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
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 15 It bounces, foams, and froths, and flitters, As it were troubled with the squitters.
1691 A. D'Anvers Academia 45 Then, as if troubled with the Squitters, Away they feque it to St. Peters.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 357 Skutta, Skitta, Squitter, these words are pretty nearly the same; and imply a lashness or diarrhœa, especially in a horse or cow.
1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior ii. 131 ‘Aren't you sleeping?’ ‘I get the squitters pretty regularly.’
1976 A. Price War Game 13 I reckon squitters was queen [of the battlefield]. More of the poor bastards crapped themselves to death than killed each other.
1981 Ld. Harewood Tongs & Bones ii. 37 We went incessantly to those over~public latrines... My squitters were at their worst.
2. Radar. Random pulses produced by a transponder in the absence of interrogating signals.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > other methods or operations > radar > signals or pulses
reply1945
interrogation1946
squitter1958
monopulse1959
1958 Proc. Inst. Electr. Engineers 105 B. Suppl. No. 8. 299/2 An average of 2700 pulses/sec are produced by the trigger circuit. These pulses are of constant amplitude and shape, but entirely random in time spacing and are known as ‘squitter’.
1976 P. Honold Secondary Radar i. 67 If the dynamic characteristics of the receiver are too low, the message transmitted may be falsified.., should the signal level be very high. This..will also cause additional dead times—if these are triggered by interference pulses (squitter).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

squitterv.

Etymology: Imitative (compare squit v.), or alteration of skitter v.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsquitter.
Now dialect.
1. transitive and intransitive. To squirt; to spatter, splutter.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > squirt or issue in a jet [verb (intransitive)]
spurt1570
spirt1582
squitter1596
jet1692
splirt1791
squirt1858
skeet1880
skoosh1890
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
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. N4 v Inck-squittring and printing against me.
1809 T. Batchelor Orthoëpical Anal. Dial. Bedfordshire v, in Orthoëpical Anal. Eng. Lang. 144 Skwitter, scatter or sputter.
1897 D'Esterre-Keeling Return to Nature viii Then he said, looking at the squirt, ‘This squittered’. ‘You didn't make it squitter, did you?’
2. intransitive. To void thin excrement.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > have excretory disorder [verb (intransitive)] > diarrhoea
skittera1400
squirt1530
scutter1565
squatter1598
squitter1611
shoota1642
skit1805
run1849
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squaccarare, to squatter, to squirt or lash it out behind after a purgation; to squitter.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ To squitter, forire.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Foirer To squitter.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 313 And here be de Mob make 'em squitter and tremble.

Derivatives

ˈsquitterer n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > grape > bunch or part of bunch
raisinc1300
wine-grapea1325
gripea1400
cluster-tenec1420
squitterer1737
shoulders1838
1737 J. Ozell tr. F. Rabelais Wks. I. 255 (note) The laxative Quality of the White Grape, called for that very Reason Foirard (Squitterer).
ˈsquittering n. In quot. 1902 as imitative of a sound.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] > of specific type > thin
squirt1580
squittering1611
skitter1692
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > splutter
splutter1815
glutter1826
spluttering1840
squittering1902
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Squacchera, a squattring soft turde, a squittring.
1902 H. H. Johnston Uganda Protectorate I. i. 16 Hissings and squitterings and splashings..of those [birds] who are starting on flight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

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