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.

yanbu - eewww.

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

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

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?

I think you mean squitters?

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

No-one complains about Winnie the Pooh...

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"

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.

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.

HengshanRoad

Skitters are the aliens in FX's Fallen Skies

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

winnie the shit

winnie the squits

in Scotland.

at a squirrel moving like the shits.

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

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

skitters means the runs here in Edinburgh, yes

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

A skit is a comedy piece!

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

"the girls skittered up the stairs"

That would take some cleaning up.

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

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

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.

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.