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squit
squit
English
Noun
squit (countable and uncountable, plural squits)
- (derogatory, informal, countable) A person of low status.
- 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
- Not a favourite son, of course — Lord, no! — more a sort of illegitimate backstairs sort of sprog, you know: a sort of spotty squit that nobody really likes.
- 2000, Josie Lloyd, Emlyn Rees, Come Again, page 153,
- 'It isn't so funny when it's the other way round, is it?' I snarl, before adding, 'You geeky little squit,' for good measure.
- 2007, Katharine Whitehorn, Selective Memory, unnumbered page,
- I couldn't believe my ears: at Roedean a new girl spent at least a term having it drummed into her what an insignificant little squit she was; and here were these girls being welcoming!
- 1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee"):
- (Norfolk, uncountable) Nonsense; amusing stories.
- 2007, Keith Skipper, Keith Skipper's Bumper Book of Norfolk Squit: High jinks, hilarity & hot air from Norfolk's favourite raconteur.
- 2007, Ann Neve, Ride Upon the Storm, page 162,
- 'Cor blast, Tovell, you don't half talk some squit at times!' exclaimed Ted Carter.
- ‘Squit! It's the gospel truth. […] ’
- 2009, Alison Weir, The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, page 420,
- In 1985, asked by the writer Richard Whittington-Egan if he believed in this apparition, an old local man replied that it was ‘a load of old squit.’
Etymology 2
Verb
squit (third-person singular simple present squits, present participle squitting, simple past and past participle squitted)
- (transitive, Internet) To disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.
- 1994, "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers (on newsgroup alt.irc)
- […] these problems solved themselves atfter[sic] some 10 minutes or so, without an ircop interferring[sic] into channel affairs by squitting his/her server to gain chanop status.
- 1996, "Jesse", A warning to all irc users (on newsgroup alt.irc)
- Today, I was awakened by a call from one of my IRC ops, telling me that my net had been 'taken over'. An ircop had squitted all the servers, and had a script that kept them disconnected from the net.
- 1994, "Bernhard Lorenz", ChanOp for Irc Opers (on newsgroup alt.irc)
See also
- squits (diarrhoea)