Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - skitter
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Skitter
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verb Etymology: probably frequentative of English dialect (Scots and northern) skite to move quickly, probably from Old Norse skyt-, stem of skjota to shoot Date: 1845 intransitive verb 1. a. to glide or skip lightly or quickly b. to move in or as in a jittery or jerky way leaves ~ing over the sidewalk 2. to twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water transitive verb to cause to ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.intr. (also skeeter) 1 a (usu. foll. by along, across) move lightly or hastily. b (usu. foll. by about, off) hurry about, dart off. 2 fish by drawing bait jerkily across the surface of the water. Etymology: app. frequent. of dial. skite, perh. formed as SKIT(1) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. легко и быстро нестись (едва касаясь поверхности) 2. подергивать рыболовный крючок ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1845, frequentive of skite "to dart, run quickly" (1721), perhaps from a Scand. source (cf. Icelandic skjota "to shoot," or Norw. dialectal skutla "glide rapidly"). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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