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skeeter en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Clipping of a variant pronunciation of mosquito. Compare tater, mater.

Meanings

1. (US, informal) A mosquito.
   • One day brought the rain and the rain stayed on And the swamp water overflowed. Skeeters and the fever grabbed the town like a fist Doctor Jackson was the first to go. 1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:

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Deriveds

skeeter syndrome · skeeter hawk

Relateds

skeeto

skeeter en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. To skitter.
   • Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men. 2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:
   • The tire bumped on gravel, skeetered across the road, crashed into a barrier and popped me like a cork onto pavement. 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
   • A twilight fox skeetered across the car park. 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:
   • They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her. 1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:
   • The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist. 2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:

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