To think that Skitters is really bad name for a squirrel?

[Grandhighpoohba]

I'm speaking to you Ceebeebies. Where I live, skitters is another word for diarrhoea. Nice. Shitty the Squirrel.

[GlitterySkulls]

yanbu - eewww.

[TrillianAstra]

Skittering is exactly how squirrels move - sounds very appropriate to me.

[yellowraincoat]

There was a Slyvanian Family toy called Skitter/s when I was little. How we laughed.

[SnapesMistress]

I have never heard of skitters being a slang for the runs, grew up in the westcountry and now live in Yorkshire, where is it from?

[MitchiestInge]

I think you mean squitters?

[MitchiestInge]

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
squitters/ˈskwɪtəz/
▶plural noun
informal diarrhoea.
? origin C17: perh. from dial. squit ?to squirt?.

[HengshanRoad]

No-one complains about Winnie the Pooh...

[zelda1982]

we say "do you have the squits?" Squits also means when you pay someone back and you are now even ie "we're squits now"

[fiveisanawfullybignumber]

I'd have thought it's more inappropriate as I know it. Short slang for someone very agitated and manic, think of mental illnesses. I find it tactless and offensive in either context.

[yellowraincoat]

Don't know about spelling, but we def pronounced it skitters. I'm from north of Scotland, partner from Manchester and he used the word too.

[worraliberty]

HengshanRoad

[EarthMotherImNot]

Skitters are the aliens in FX's Fallen Skies

[ConstanceNoring]

zelda it's 'we're quits now", not squits

[ConstanceNoring]

winnie the shit

winnie the squits

[Grandhighpoohba]

in Scotland.

at a squirrel moving like the shits.

[zelda1982]

well we've always said "squits" so there :P (whys there no sticky out tongue on here)

[upahill]

A skitter is someone who takes the mickey out of something where i come from.
A squit is slang for a runny shit.

[fanjoforthemammaries7850]

skitters means the runs here in Edinburgh, yes

[TidyDancer]

Squits or shits for diarrhoea, never heard skits or skitters!

A skit is a comedy piece!

[Callisto]

Skitter is the way something moves.

skit·ter Verb/ˈskitər/

1. Move lightly and quickly: "the girls skittered up the stairs".
   
2. Draw (bait) jerkily across the surface of the water as a technique in fishing

[Grandhighpoohba]

"the girls skittered up the stairs"

That would take some cleaning up.

[qo]

hehe!! I have a scottish mum and gran, so I knew skitters meant the shits too!!

[MalkieFraser]

Aye, I had a chuckle when I watched that. Skitters are definitely the shits.

[SardineQueen]

Squits around here. Well not right now but you know what I mean

Also "quits" when things are settled and even.

Skittering is a way of moving.

[PuppyMonkey]

The skitters is used very specifically and categorically to mean the shits in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. We did it at A Level and I have always used the term in its honour.