SKIT

skit

(noun) a short theatrical episode

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

skit (plural skits)

A short comic performance.

A jeer or sally; a brief satire.

(obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• 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



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