- 1短劇、搞笑小品（指表演的小段，不是作文課的「小品文」）
A skit is a short, funny performance — often only a few minutes. People act a little scene to make others laugh: two students pretending to be lost tourists, a comic argument in a shop, a tiny play with a silly ending. You meet skits at school talent shows, in comedy programmes, and in variety shows. Though actually, a skit can also be a short funny piece of writing, not acted at all — a little script on the page. It is a light, informal word. Nobody uses it for a serious full-length play or a whole film. Teachers like skits because students can speak English without having to write a long story. An older, rarer use was “a sharp teasing remark,” but almost always meet the “short funny scene” meaning.
組成Origin uncertain. It may come from Old Norse skjúta, “to shoot, dart, move quickly.” Another idea is that it was cut back from skittish. Nobody is sure.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
skitnoun
- 1
A short comic performance done by amateurs.
- 2
A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
- That is a mere skit compared with this strange performance.
- 3
obsoleteA wanton girl; a wench.
- 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.
- 4
A short, sharp shower (of rain).
- ... there come on a 'skit' of rain, and I made for one of his barns for shelter.
- Suddenly there came a little volley of sharp drops - not of the liquid he desired - dashed into the trumpeter's red face , and against the back of the parson's hat - the first skit of rain, that seemed rather to rise as if from a blow-pipe, than fall from the clouds.
- 5
Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.
- The Cause and Nature of the Skit, or Scour, of Sheep and Lambs.
- […] quality in the seeds which he cannot account for, that of killing lambs at about ten days old; they die of the skit, or scouring; and it is particularly experienced in new inclosures; […]
skitverb
- 1
To make fun of.
- "If they wor all their lives goin' to chapel they cudn't have behaved thimsilves betther nor they did." "Ay, Paddy, mavourneen; I'll be bail they didn't skit and laugh the way some people would be doin'." "Laugh! not thimsilves, indeed."
- 2
regionalTo caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
- Yet soon's she hears me mention Muirland Willie, / She skits an' flings like ony towmont filly- […]
- The big man stood across, as if to hide the cart; but the man behind the horse skitted back into a bush, very nimble and clever, but not quite smart enough.
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