Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skit or water-rail, Rallus aquaticus, more fully called
skitty-cock and skitty-coot. - noun The gallinule, Gallinula chloropus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A rail; as, the water rail (called also
skitty cock , andskitty coot ); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta ), and the moor hen.
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Examples
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‘Moorhen of Dharma’: Dharma can be difficult to contemplate when in pain; the moorhen, or ‘skitty coot,’ is a ridiculous-looking, weak bird.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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‘Moorhen of Dharma’: Dharma can be difficult to contemplate when in pain; the moorhen, or ‘skitty coot,’ is a ridiculous-looking, weak bird.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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‘Moorhen of Dharma’: Dharma can be difficult to contemplate when in pain; the moorhen, or ‘skitty coot,’ is a ridiculous-looking, weak bird.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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I tryin to settle her for the nite,but she a bit skitty an away wiv fairies still.
K, nao tie it to the other shoo - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The large household lantern was cleaned out, after three years of uninterrupted accumulation, the operation yielding a conglomerate of candle-snuffs, candle-ends, remains of matches, lamp-black, and eleven ounces and a half of good grease -- invaluable as dubbing for skitty boots and ointment for cart-wheels.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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She was ready before Green, and urged on that factotum so wildly as to leave him no time to change his corduroys and 'skitty-boots' in which he had been gardening; he therefore turned himself into a coachman as far down as his waist merely -- clapping on his proper coat, hat, and waistcoat, and wrapping a rug over his horticultural half below.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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Well after obtaning the national pokedex, you can now take torchic, shroomish, skitty, and jigglypuff into amity square.
unknown title 2009
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Well after obtaning the national pokedex, you can now take torchic, shroomish, skitty, and jigglypuff into amity square.
unknown title 2009
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Well after obtaning the national pokedex, you can now take torchic, shroomish, skitty, and jigglypuff into amity square.
unknown title 2009
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Well after obtaning the national pokedex, you can now take torchic, shroomish, skitty, and jigglypuff into amity square.
unknown title 2009
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