skeeter
See also: Skeeter
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Clipping of a variant pronunciation of mosquito. Compare tater, mater.
Noun
[edit]skeeter (plural skeeters)
- (US, informal) A mosquito.
- 1973, “Swamp Witch”, in Jim Stafford (lyrics), Jim Stafford, performed by Jim Stafford:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mosquito — see mosquito
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]skeeter (third-person singular simple present skeeters, present participle skeetering, simple past and past participle skeetered)
- To skitter.
- 1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:
- They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.
- 2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:
- The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.
- 2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:
- Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.
- 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:
- A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.