单词 | squitter |
释义 | squittern. Now dialect and colloquial. 1. Diarrhoea. Usually in plural. Cf. skitter n.1 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Now dialect. 1. transitive and intransitive. To squirt; to spatter, splutter. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). > see alsoalso refers to : † squitter-comb. form < see also |
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