skitter

verb

Pronunciation: /ˈskɪtə(ɹ)/ / /ˈskɪtɚ/ / [ˈskɪɾɚ]

Etymology: From skite (“to defecate”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb.

Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.
“I can't give it my immediate attention, as the cow has the skitter (diarrhoea) and I'm waiting on the Vit (vet).”
“Shaking but making herself stand there while skitter ran down the inside of her legs. She learnt German early from Anna. Durchfall easier to spell than Diarrhoea. Falling liquid brown.”

Etymology: From skite (“to defecate”) + -er (frequentative suffix). The noun is derived from the verb.

To cause to have diarrhea.
“"[…] I'd like you to give the calves two heaped tablespoonfuls [of Epsom salts] three times a day." / "Oh 'ell, you'll skitter the poor buggers to death!" / "Maybe so, but there's nothing else for it," I said.”
To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
“As a symptomatic phenomenon, Diarrhœa is skittering, i.e., the discharges are composed of water, intermingled with particles of imperfectly digested food; from two to six or eight discharges may thus take place, and it is an invariable precursor of constipation.”
“And when health problems struck, as they inevitably would, no matter how attentive the farmer, the tree had to be nursed until it was better. […] Jeez, and I'd thought mothering week-old orphan calves back in Scotland had been a headache! Still, at least a tree couldn't skitter diarrhoea down the front of your jeans, or bellow to be bucket-fed warm milk in the middle of the night, so that was a bonus.”