skeeter

Respelling of a lax pronunciation of the final syllables of mosquito.

skeeter (plural skeeters)

1. (US) mosquito

skeeter (third-person singular simple present skeeters, present participle skeetering, simple past and past participle skeetered)

1. Synonym of skitter
   • 1975, Frank Trippett, Child Ellen, page 342:

     They skeetered out and then made an elegant racing turn and skeetered directly into her.

   • 2010, Michael D. Langan, When I Was a Boy, →ISBN, page 25:

     The iceman skeetered here and there, with his brown gabardine trousers dripping over his work shoes and drooping from his hip-less waist.

   • 2011, Michael Asher, Sands of Death: An Epic Tale Of Massacre And Survival In The Sahara, →ISBN:

     Bullets skeetered across the rocks, snapping off fragments in deadly shrapnel bursts, gouging furrows in the serir around the advancing men.

   • 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:

     A twilight fox skeetered across the car park.

• Keeters, keester