skit

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,^[1] which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.^[2]

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance done by amateurs.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • 1882, Leslie Stephen, Swift:

     That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

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

     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.

• blackout skit

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

1. (transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
2. (regional, intransitive) To leap aside; to caper.

• skittish

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

From English skirt.

skit

1. skirt

• skitj (Föhr-Amrum)
• schite (Mooring)

From Proto-West Germanic *skītan.

• (Sylt) IPA^(key): [skɪt]

skit

1. (Sylt) to shit, defecate

• Skit

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

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːt/, /sçiːt/

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

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

• drit

• renneskit
• skitrot

From Old Norse skit n.

• skitt

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪːt/, /sçɪːt/

skit n (definite singular skitet, uncountable)

1. dirt, filth

skit

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

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɧiːt/

skit c

1. (vulgar) shit (excrement)

   Synonyms: bajs, avföring, exkrement, fekalier, träck, dret

   Det är skit på mattan

   There's shit on the carpet

   Det luktar skit här inne

   It smells like shit in here

2. (colloquial, vulgar) crap, shit (undesirable material)

   Ta bort den där skiten från skrivbordet

   Get that crap off the desk

3. (colloquial, vulgar) shit (something or someone undesirable or disagreeable, more generally)

   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. (colloquial, vulgar) (something) very bad (in adjectival and adverbial usage)

   Synonym: piss

   Filmen var skit

   The movie was shit

   Det här smakar skit

   This tastes like shit

5. (in the definite) the shit (as an intensifier)

   banka skiten ur någon

   beat the shit out of someone

6. (colloquial, vulgar, in negations) shit (anything)

   Synonyms: piss, dugg, dyft, jota, skvatt, smack

   Jag förstår inte ett skit

   I don't understand shit

Note that you "don't understand a shit" rather than "don't understand shit" in Swedish.

• skita

skit

1. (colloquial, vulgar, sometimes followed by också) shit, damnit

   Det kommer regna. Skit också!

   It's gonna rain. Damnit!

   Jävla skit!

   Fucking shit!

Less vulgar when followed by också, but still colloquial.

skit

1. imperative of skita

• skit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

• sikt, tiks