† ˈsquitter-
the verbal stem used in comb., as squitter-book, -pulp, -wit, a scribbler, a copious but worthless writer; squitter-breech, one who has or suffers from diarrhœa.
| 1594 Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. (Grosart) V. 70 The scolasticall *squitter bookes clout you vp cannopies & foot⁓clothes of verses. 1600 ― Summers Last Will Ibid. VI. 149 All this would not make me a squitter-booke. |
| 1611 Beaum. & Fl. King & No K. ii. ii, How now, goodman *squitter-breech, why do you lean on me? |
| 1607 Day Parl. Bees v. Wks. (1888) 235 Some lousy ballad! I cannot choose but laugh At these poor *squitter-pulps. |
| 1615 J. H. Worlds Folly B iij, Those mercenary *squitter-wits, miscalled Poets. |