English-Finnish translations for skitter

• kipittää
  Orava kipitti puuhun pakoon.
• lennähdellä
• liihotella
• viilettää
  viilettää yöelämässä

Definition of skitter

• To move#Verb|move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry
• To make a scratch#Verb|scratching or scuttle#Verb 2|scuttling noise#Noun|noise while, or as if, skittering
• To move or pass#Verb|pass over a surface#Noun|surface quickly so that it touch#Verb|touches only at intervals; to skip#Verb|skip, to skite#Verb|skite
• A skittering movement
• To cause to have diarrhea
• To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce#Verb|produce thin#Adjective|thin excrement
• ''Often''''''': the condition#Noun|condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin#Adjective|thin excrement

Examples

• I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness
• A skitter of activity.A skitter of gooseflesh

Related words

• skittish
• skittle
• skittishly
• skitters|the skitters
• skittle alley
• skittle club
• skittle pin
• life is not all beer and skittles
• beer and skittles