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Quitted vs Squitted - What's the difference?

quitted | squitted |

As verbs the difference between quitted and squitted

is that quitted is (quit) while squitted is (squit).

quitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (quit)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1941 , author=Chapman Miske , title=The Thing in the Moonlight , passage=Casting my eyes about, I beheld no living object; but was sensible of a very peculiar stirring far below me, amongst the whispering rushes of the pestilential swamp I had lately quitted .}}

    Usage notes

    * See .

    Synonyms

    * quit

    squitted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (squit)

    • squit

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

  • (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
  • * 1989 , Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
    • Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.
  • (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.

    • Etymology 2

    Short for server quit .

    Verb

  • (internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
  • * 1994 , "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • these problems solved themselves atfter(SIC) some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring(SIC) into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.
  • * 1996 , "Jesse", A warning to all irc users'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.

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