skit

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

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skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance.
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: 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. (transitive, Ireland, Liverpudlian, Merseyside) To make fun of.
2. (regional, intransitive) To leap aside; to caper.

• skittish

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

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

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 (colloquial, mildly vulgar)

1. excrement, shit

   Det är skit på mattan.

   There's shit on the carpet.

2. dirt, filth

   Ta bort den där skiten från skrivbordet.

   Get that crap off the desk.

3. someone or something undesirable or revolting

   Jag börjar tröttna på den här skiten.

   I'm starting to get 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)

   Filmen var skit

   The movie was shit

   Det här smakar skit

   The tastes like shit

   Synonym: piss

5. (colloquial, vulgar, in negations) anything

   Jag förstår inte ett skit

   I don't understand shit

   Synonyms: piss, dugg, jota

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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.

• sikt, tiks