skit

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”).

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • Leslie Stephen

     That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

3. (obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)

1. (Ireland, Liverpudlian, Merseyside) To make fun of.

• skittish

• Kist, kist, kits

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːt/

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Akin to English shit.

• skitt

skit m (definite singular skiten, indefinite plural skitar, definite plural skitane)

1. shit, muck, feces
2. dirt, rubbish (something useless)

• drit

skit

1. inflection of skita:
   1. present
   2. imperative

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Compare Danish skid, Icelandic skítur, Dutch schijt, German Scheiße, English shit.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɧiːt/

skit c

1. (strongly colloquial) excrement; shit

   Det är skit på mattan. ― There's shit on the carpet.

2. (strongly colloquial) dirt, filth

   Ta bort den där skiten från skrivbordet. "Get that crap off the desk."

3. (strongly colloquial) someone or something undesirable or revolting

   Jag börjar tröttna på den här skiten. "I'm getting tired of this shit."

   Du är bara en liten skit. "You're just a little shit."

4. (strongly colloquial) as the first part of compound used to indicate something negative

   Det här är ett jävla skitjobb. "This is a damned crappy job."

5. (strongly colloquial) as the first part of compound used to intensify the positive or negative aspect of something

   Den där filmen var skitbra. "That movie was really good."

   De lagar skitgod mat. "They cook really good food."

skit

1. (strongly colloquial) shit!

skit

1. imperative of skita.