skitter

• vi. 飞掠而过；蹦跳
• vt. 使掠过水面

1. to move about or proceed hurriedly;

"so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground"

2. glide easily along a surface

3. cause to skip over a surface;

"Skip a stone across the pond"

4. twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

来自古义 skit,轻快的跑，-er,表反复。

skitter (v.)

"to run rapidly," 1845, frequentative of skite "to dart, run quickly" (1721), perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse skjota "to shoot, launch, move quickly, avoid (a blow);" Norwegian dialectal skutla "glide rapidly"); see skittish. As a noun from 1905.