Squitter

/ˈskwɪ.tə/ · noun

Meaning

(archaic) Watery stool..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic) Watery stool.
2. (communications engineering) A random broadcast of data occurring either intentionally or in response to noise.
3. To create watery stool; to squirt (stool).
4. To squirt (in general).
5. To skitter or scutter, to move quickly.
6. (communications engineering) To broadcast squitter.
7. To waste; to squander.

Example Sentences

Mlat triangulates a moving aircraft's position from a number of fixed ground stations at known locations receiving and time stamping an aircraft-transponder squitter.

Ann has norovirus, she's spent the entire day squittering on the toilet.

A cinnamon candle, thick and brown, squittered light across the room, dropped some on her belly, where it pooled in her navel and spread down to her pubis, coating the hairs, making them feel like starchy grains of rice when she touched them […]

[…] lunging his knife into another can. It squittered black and grey curds. Later Cal would see how the system incorporated these exploding cans into a sort of 'internal combustion' engine, using an old auto cylinder block, reloading eight cans after every revolution.

Tiny zebra fish squittered away through the beds of flowers and out into huge lakes that had appeared overnight. The cycads had thrown off their load of curious egg-like pods and they floated in like some alien seed released from the deep. The[…]

... tin men and women roiled and squittered like demonic insects. Or the maggots Fyche claimed to see on the side of the tor, writhing around my feet and ankles as I walked endlessly amid the dream hills around Glastonbury, lured by the distant chinging of church[…]

"I tried to stop her, but she squittered right past." "My apologies , sentry. Rest assured, nothing short of a round from your musket could stop my sister when she has her mind set on plaguing me. You can return to your post."

A silverfish squittered out across a shelf like a fast running inkblot on legs. Texas Jack Page squashed it under his thumb, murdering it neatly between a hand bound copy of HP Lovecraft's The Outsider written in a murderer's blood and the rough[…]

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• squitters
• squittering
• squittered

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