Skitters vs Spitters - What's the difference?

As a verb skitters

is third-person singular of skitter.

plural of lang=en.

(head)

(skitter)

(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.

(en noun)

A skittering movement.

A skitter of activity.

A skitter of gooseflesh.

(head)