different between skit vs playlet

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

skit (plural skits)

1. A short comic performance.
2. A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
   • 1882, Template:e, Swift

     That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.

3. (obsolete) A wanton girl; a wench.
   • 1936: Like the Phoenix by Anthony Bertram

     However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie—did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.

Translations

Verb

skit (third-person singular simple present skits, present participle skitting, simple past and past participle skitted)

1. (transitive, Ireland, Liverpudlian, Merseyside) To make fun of.
2. (regional, intransitive) To leap aside; to caper.

Related terms

• skittish

Translations

Anagrams

• Kist, kist, kits, tisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?t/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Akin to English shit.

Alternative forms

• skitt

Noun

skit m (definite singular skiten, indefinite plural skitar, definite plural skitane)

1. shit, muck, feces
2. dirt, rubbish (something useless)

Synonyms

• drit

Etymology 2

Verb

skit

1. inflection of skita:
   1. present
   2. imperative

References

• “skit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse skítr, from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Cognate with Danish skid, Icelandic skítur, Dutch schijt, German Scheiße and English shit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?t/

Noun

skit c (colloquial, mildly vulgar)

1. excrement, shit

2. dirt, filth

3. someone or something undesirable or revolting

Interjection

skit

1. (colloquial, vulgar) shit!

Verb

skit

1. imperative of skita.

Anagrams

• sikt, tiks

English

Etymology

play +? -let

Noun

playlet (plural playlets)

1. A short play (dramatic work).

Synonyms

• playette

Translations