squit

plural squits

1. countablederogatoryinformalA person of low status.

   '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.

   2000, Josie Lloyd, Emlyn Rees, Come Again, page 153

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   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.

   1989, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth (episode "Goodbyeee")

   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!

   2007, Katharine Whitehorn, Selective Memory, unnumbered page

2. NorfolkuncountableNonsense; amusing stories.

   'Cor blast, Tovell, you don't half talk some squit at times!' exclaimed Ted Carter. ‘Squit! It's the gospel truth.[…]’

   2007, Ann Neve, Ride Upon the Storm, page 162

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   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.’

   2009, Alison Weir, The Lady In The Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn, page 420

present singular third person squits · participle present squitting · participle past squitted · past squitted

1. InternettransitiveTo disconnect (an IRC server) from a network.

   […] 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.

   1994, Bernhard Lorenz, “ChanOp for Irc Opers”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

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   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.

   1996, Jesse, “A warning to all irc users”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

plural squits

1. onomatopoeicA light squishing or splattering sound.

   "Mr. Kuttner, you know I'm the best in this business, don't you?" he said, swatting at a mosquito. It went squit and left a smear of blood on his cheek.

   2007, S. M. Stirling, The Sunrise Lands, page 79

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   She turned away and stalked back through the lounge, her running shoes making a squit-squit-squit sound on the tiles, punctuated by the slam of the front door.

   2021, Malcolm Devlin, Unexpected Places to Fall From, Unexpected Places to Land