Usually means: Moved quickly with light steps.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word skittered:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. skittered: Merriam-Webster
  2. skittered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skittered: Vocabulary.com
  4. skittered: Wordnik
  5. skittered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. skittered: Wiktionary
  7. skittered: Dictionary.com
  8. skittered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skittered: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See skitter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (skitter)

verb:  (intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering.
verb:  (transitive) To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.
noun:  (also figuratively) A skittering movement.
verb:  (transitive, Northern England, Scotland) To cause to have diarrhea.
verb:  (intransitive, Northern England, Scotland) To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern England, uncountable) Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement.
▸ Also see skitter


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