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Skittering

verb
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry.
"I opened the cabinet and a number of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness."
2.verbTo make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
3.verbTo move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
4.verbTo cause to have diarrhea.
5.verbTo suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
6.nounThe act of one who skitters.

Synonyms

scamperscurryskipskiteskimscuttlechitteringscrabblingbrattlingchitterscritchingtittering

Rhymes With

flutteringmutteringjitteringflitteringtitteringstutteringutteringguttering
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