Now dial. [f. the vb. Cf. SKITTER sb.1] Diarrhœa. Usually in pl.
1664. Cotton, Scarron., I. (1715), 7. It Bounces, Foams, and Froths and Flitters, As if ’twere troubled with the Squitters.
1691. Mrs. D’Anvers, Academia, 45. Then, as if troubled with the Squitters, Away they feque it to St. Peters.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, 357. Skutta, Skitta, Squitter, these words are pretty nearly the same; and imply a lashness or diarrhœa, especially in a horse or cow.
1841–. in midland and southern dial. glossaries (in form squitters).
