dial. [perh. related to SQUIT v. Cf. also SKIT sb.2]
1. A diminutive or insignificant person.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, 322. Squit, a word of supreme contempt for a very diminutive person. ‘A paltry squit!’
1847. Halliw., s.v., ‘A little squit of a thing’ is said disparagingly of a somewhat diminutive and not pleasing young woman.
1889. ‘F. Anstey,’ Pariah, II. III. viii. 101. But why aren’t you half a bad little squit?
2. Stupid or silly talk; nonsense.
1893. Cozens-Hardy, Broad Norf., 55. Some people may look upon this correspondence as a lot of squit and slaver.
