the verbal stem used in comb., as squitter-book, -pulp, -wit, a scribbler, a copious but worthless writer; squitter-breech, one who has or suffers from diarrhœa.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., Wks. (Grosart), V. 70. The scolasticall *squitter bookes clout you vp cannopies & foot-clothes of verses. Ibid. (1600), Summer’s Last Will, Ibid. VI. 149. All this would not make me a squitter-booke.
1611. Beaum. & Fl., King & No K., II. ii. How now, goodman *squitter-breech, why do you lean on me?
1607. Day, Parl. Bees, v. Wks. (1888), 235. Some lousy ballad! I cannot choose but laugh At these poor *squitter-pulps.
1615. J. H., Worlds Folly, B iij. Those mercenary Squitter-wits mis-called Poets.
