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Skitter vs Spitter - What's the difference?

skitter | spitter |

As nouns the difference between skitter and spitter

is that skitter is a skittering movement while spitter is a person who or animal or object that spits.

As a verb skitter

is to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing.

skitter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to move hurriedly or as by twitching or bouncing
  • I opened the cabinet and hundreds of cockroaches went skittering off into the darkness.
  • to make a skittering noise
  • In Scotland : Diarrea.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A skittering movement.
  • A skitter of activity.
    A skitter of gooseflesh.

    See also

    * scamper * scurry English onomatopoeias

    spitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who or animal or object that spits.
  • (baseball) A spitball.
  • One who puts meat on a spit.
  • A young deer whose antlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.