squit
/skwɪt
/noun
1British informal A small or insignificant person: a little squit like Thorpe...
- The little squit is the author of his own misfortunes.
- 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.
2 (the squits) Diarrhoea.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
- the Kirk
- the Kirk of Scotland
- the knives are out (for someone)
- the Kop
- the Kremlin
- the Kurils
- the ladies
- the Lakes
- the Lamb of God (also the Lamb)
- the land of Nod
- the land of the free
- the last minute
- the last (or final) straw
- the last straw
- the last word
- the laugh is on me (or you, him, etc.)
- the Law
- (the law of) diminishing returns
- the Law of Moses
- the law of the jungle
- the Left
- the length and breadth of
- the lesser evil (or the lesser of two evils)
- the Lido
- the lie (lay) of the land