verb to be engaged in some troublesome time-wasting, pointless work, to fiddle or potter about in an aimless confused manner, to dawdle, dally: Charlotte cooked some habin [food] for him and she scuttered aboot cleaning dishes and washing some claes… 19-.
noun nonsense: Onywye, it wis jist a lot of skitter I telt the hantel, so they were pure burniegullies tae believe it in the first place. [Anyway, it was just a lot of nonsense I told the people, so they were complete fools to believe it in the first place.] la19-. etymology: Scots; origin obscure; skitter is excrement; only attested by SR