skit

See also: skít and skít-

English

Etymology

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, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

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, 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.

Derived terms

• blackout skit

Translations

comedy

• Bulgarian: скеч m (skeč)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小品 (zh) (xiǎopǐn), 喜劇小品／喜剧小品 (xǐjù xiǎopǐn) (sketch comedy), 短劇／短剧 (duǎnjù)

• Dutch: sketch (nl) m
• Esperanto: skeĉo
• Finnish: sketsi (fi)
• French: sketch (fr) m, parodie (fr) f, saynète (fr) f
• German: (art) Darbietung (de), Parodie (de) f, Satire (de) f, Seitenhieb (de) m, Spott (de) m, satirische Einlage f
• Japanese: 寸劇 (ja) (すんげき, sungeki), スケッチ (suketchi), スキット (sukitto)
• Korean: 촌극 (ko) (chon'geuk)
• Polish: skecz (pl) m
• Portuguese: esquete (pt) f
• Russian: скетч (ru) m (sketč), паро́дия (ru) f (paródija), репри́за (ru) f (repríza)
• Spanish: sketch m
• Swedish: sketch (sv) c
• Turkish: hiciv (tr), parodi (tr), skeç (tr), şaka (tr)

Verb

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.

Related terms

• skittish

Translations

poke fun

• Dutch: plagen (nl), belachelijk maken
• Finnish: pilkata (fi)
• German: verspotten (de)
• Korean: 조롱하다 (ko) (joronghada)
• Russian: высме́ивать (ru) impf (vysméivatʹ), вы́смеять (ru) pf (výsmejatʹ)
• Turkish: alay etmek (tr)

Anagrams

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

Iban

Etymology

From English skirt.

Noun

skit

1. skirt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːt/, /sçiːt/

Noun

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

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

Synonyms

• drit

Etymology 2

From Old Norse skit n.

Alternative forms

• skitt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪːt/, /sçɪːt/

Noun

skit n (definite singular skitet, uncountable)

1. dirt, filth

Etymology 3

Verb

skit

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

References

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɧiːt/

Noun

skit c (colloquial, mildly vulgar)

1. (vulgar) shit (excrement)

   Synonyms: bajs, avföring, exkrement, fekalier

   Det är skit på mattan

   There's shit on the carpet

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 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)

   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

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• skit på dig
• skit samma
• skit- (intensifier)
• skithus
• skithuspapper
• skithål (“shithole”)
• skitkorv
• snacka skit

Interjection

skit

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

   Det kommer regna. Skit också!

   It's gonna rain. Damnit!

   Jävla skit!

   Fucking shit!

Usage notes

Less vulgar when followed by också, but still colloquial.

Verb

skit

1. imperative of skita

References

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

Anagrams

• sikt, tiks