skittery adjective vile, contaminated as if by excrement: Noo [Now], the MacCallums, they hae a gey rauch [very rough] nickname: they’re ca’d [called] the Skittery MacCallums because they aye [always] shite their troosers [trousers] when they get drunk. 20-. etymology: from skitter noun ‘diarrhoea, liquid excrement’; attested by BS in TDITA, JS and BW |