squit
noun/skwɪt/
/skwɪt/
(British English)- (informal) a rude way to refer to somebody who you think is small or unimportant
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- the squits(also the squitters[plural] (informal) diarrhoea (= an illness in which waste matter is emptied from the bowels much more frequently than normal, and in liquid form)/ðə ˈskwɪtəz//ðə ˈskwɪtərz/)
Word Originearly 19th cent.: perhaps related to dialect squit ‘to squirt.’
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