Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skit
Participle: skitted
Gerund: skitting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skit |
| you | skit |
| he;she;it | skits |
| we | skit |
| you | skit |
| they | skit |
Perfect
| I | have skitted |
| you | have skitted |
| he;she;it | has skitted |
| we | have skitted |
| you | have skitted |
| they | have skitted |
Past
| I | skitted |
| you | skitted |
| he;she;it | skitted |
| we | skitted |
| you | skitted |
| they | skitted |
Pluperfect
| I | had skitted |
| you | had skitted |
| he;she;it | had skitted |
| we | had skitted |
| you | had skitted |
| they | had skitted |
Future
| I | will skit |
| you | will skit |
| he;she;it | will skit |
| we | will skit |
| you | will skit |
| they | will skit |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skitted |
| you | will have skitted |
| he;she;it | will have skitted |
| we | will have skitted |
| you | will have skitted |
| they | will have skitted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skit |
| you | skit |
| he;she;it | skit |
| we | skit |
| you | skit |
| they | skit |
Perfect
| I | have skitted |
| you | have skitted |
| he;she;it | have skitted |
| we | have skitted |
| you | have skitted |
| they | have skitted |
Imperfect
| I | skitted |
| you | skitted |
| he;she;it | skitted |
| we | skitted |
| you | skitted |
| they | skitted |
Pluperfect
| I | had skitted |
| you | had skitted |
| he;she;it | had skitted |
| we | had skitted |
| you | had skitted |
| they | had skitted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skit |
| you | would skit |
| he;she;it | would skit |
| we | would skit |
| you | would skit |
| they | would skit |
Perfect
| I | would have skitted |
| you | would have skitted |
| he;she;it | would have skitted |
| we | would have skitted |
| you | would have skitted |
| they | would have skitted |
Imperative
| you | skit |
| we | Let's skit |
| you | skit |
Verbs conjugated like 'skit'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'skit'
kit,
shit,
sit,
skid,
skim,
skin,
skip,
skirt,
skite,
slit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
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.
Sample Sentences
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"If they wor all their lives goin' to chapel they cudn't have behaved thimsilves betther nor they did." "Ay, Paddy, mavourneen; I'll be bail they didn't skit and laugh the way some people would be doin'." "Laugh! not thimsilves, indeed." [1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 515:]
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Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […] [1873, Robert Tannahill, The Soldier's Return: A Scottish Interlude in Two Acts. With Other Poems and Songs, page 12:]
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The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough. [1894, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills, page 64:]
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I could feel her eyes skitting over to me after she said something that might have shocked me - but I stayed quiet. [2002 November 26, Sue Miller, While I Was Gone, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 164:]
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Micah watched the cloudcast shadows skitting over the snowfields before him – then screwed his face up in surprise when some of them seemed to come to a halt. He looked up. The clouds were still moving , and when he looked back at the plains he realized that the motionless grey shapes were not shadows at all. [2013 September 3, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Bloodhoney, Open Road Media, →ISBN:]