Skit
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Skit is a noun meaning A short comic performance done by amateurs.
Meaning
A short comic performance done by amateurs.
More Meanings
- A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
- A short, sharp shower (of rain).
- Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.
- (transitive, Ireland, Liverpool, Merseyside) To make fun of.
- (obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
- (regional, intransitive) To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
Example Sentences
That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.
The Cause and Nature of the Skit, or Scour, of Sheep and Lambs.
... there come on a 'skit' of rain, and I made for one of his barns for shelter.
[…] quality in the seeds which he cannot account for, that of killing lambs at about ten days old; they die of the skit, or scouring; and it is particularly experienced in new inclosures; […]
Word Forms
- skits
- skitting
- skitted
Related Words
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