skitter

Meanings

1. To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.
2. To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
3. To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.

1. A skittering movement.

1. To cause to have diarrhea.
2. To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.

1. Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.

Etymology

Possibly a frequentative of skite (“to move lightly and hurriedly; to move suddenly, particularly in an oblique direction”) (Scotland, Northern England). The noun is derived from the verb.