skit
(noun) a short theatrical episode
Source: WordNet® 3.1
skit (plural skits)
A short comic performance.
A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
(obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)
(transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
(regional, intransitive) To leap aside; to caper.
• Kist, kist, kits, tisk
Source: Wiktionary
Skit, v. t. Etym: [Prov. E. skitto slide, as adj., hasty, precipitate, of Scand. origin, and akin to E. shoot, v.t.; cf. Icel. skyti, skytja, skytta, a marksman, shooter, skjota to shoot, skuta a taunt. sq. root159. See Shoot.]
Definition: To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Crose.
Skit, n.
1. A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib. Tooke. A similar vein satire upon the emptiness of writers is given in his "Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Human Mind;" but that is a mere skit compared with this strange performance. Leslie Stephen.
2. A wanton girl; a light wench. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
