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Skeat

[ skeet ]

/ skit /

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noun

Walter William, 1835–1912, English philologist and lexicographer.

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Words nearby Skeat

skatole, skatoxyl, Skaw, skean, skean dhu, Skeat, sked, skedaddle, skedaddler, skee, Skee-Ball

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How to use Skeat in a sentence

Crab (a shell-fish) and crab (a kind of apple) are radically connected, both conveying the idea of scratching or pinching (Skeat).
Milton's Comus|John Milton
Whether or not my theories are right, it is undeniable that the etymologies of Skeat and Murray are very often painfully wrong.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley
In a moment of noteworthy frankness Prof. Skeat has admitted that “Scientific etymology is usually clumsy and frequently wrong”.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley
Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley

Skeat thinks the word gog is “of imitative origin,” but it is more likely that goggle was originally Gog oeuil or Gog Eye.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley