English Dictionary

skitter

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/

動詞

イングランド北部方言 スコットランド英語 他動詞 自動詞

(transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to have diarrhea. / (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）下痢を引き起こす。 / （自動詞）下痢にかかり、薄い便を出す。

That bad milk skittered the whole family last night.

あの悪い牛乳が昨夜家族全員に下痢を引き起こした。

意味（1）

(transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to have diarrhea.

[…] I'd like you to give the calves two heaped tablespoonfuls [of Epsom salts] three times a day. / Oh 'ell, you'll skitter the poor buggers to death! / Maybe so, but there's nothing else for it, I said.

意味（2）

(intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

As a symptomatic phenomenon, Diarrhœa is skittering, i.e., the discharges are composed of water, intermingled with particles of imperfectly digested food; from two to six or eight discharges may thus take place, and it is an invariable precursor of constipation.

skitters （ present singular third-person ）

skittering （ participle present ）

skittered （ participle past ）

skittered （ past ）