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Definition of squit in English: squitnoun skwɪt 1British informal A small or insignificant person. a little squit like Thorpe Example sentencesExamples - I get the impression that Salinger has a lot of admiration for Holden, if only because Holden narrates the whole book and there's nobody else there to comment on him, and yet I find Holden to be just a narrow-minded, priggish, self-pitying little squit.
- The little squit is the author of his own misfortunes.
Synonyms insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, non-person, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy 2the squitsDiarrhoea. Example sentencesExamples - We strolled into Marble Hill Park: ‘Look at him,’ he said suddenly, pointing to golden Labrador Ike. ‘He could have the squits and I couldn't clean that up, yet I could be fined.
- The next day I had the squits so badly I took a precautionary packet of Immodium to The Proms - Immodium I bought for Cuba and never used; that I took to Egypt and never used.
Origin Early 19th century: perhaps related to dialect squit 'to squirt'. Rhymes acquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit |