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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1572
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Skit, n. [e.m.E. skitte (1583), also in the later dialect, f. as late ME and e.m.E. skittish (Hoccleve).] A vain or frivolous woman. — 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 77.
That at the banquet of her domesticall parasite scho had not playit the dancing skit
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