skit

Meanings

1. A short comic performance done by amateurs.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
3. A wanton girl; a wench.
4. A short, sharp shower (of rain).
5. Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.

1. To make fun of.
2. To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.