skeeter

skeeter

slang A mosquito, based on a colloquial pronunciation of "-squito." Primarily heard in US. That dang place was swarmin' with skeeters. I musta got bit a hundred times!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

skeeter

(ˈskidɚ)
n. a mosquito. (Folksy.) A skeeter bit me on the arm.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • forgeddaboudit
  • forgeddaboutit
  • fuggedaboudit
  • fuggedaboutit
  • playa
  • nome
  • Nome sane?
  • Nome sayin'?
  • pardner
  • big ole
References in periodicals archive
Skeeter Skelton said it best about the importance of great leather in April 1967:
HOLSTER HISTORY: GUN LEATHER SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE SOUL OF SIXGUNNING
Phelan carves pathology onto the entire black community after confessing to a shocked Skeeter that "They are not like regular <i>people</i> ' (364).
"Spoilt Like a Rotten Oyster": Fictive Sterilization in Kathryn Stockett's The Help
and its product Skeeter Defeater will allow Infinite Outdoor Solutions to expand to the retail market for the first time.
Femo Group Acquires Mosquito Control Product
But Rita Skeeter also has it in for Hermione, saying: "Does Hermione Granger prove that a witch really can have it all?
HARRY POTTER & THE DOMESTIC DIFFICULTIES; 'Cracks' in 34-year-old's marriage to Ginny in new tale
Skeeter observes that Harry and friends are ''no longer the fresh-faced teenagers they were in their heyday'' and speculates about the state of Harry's marriage to Ginny Weasley.
Harry Potter is back in new J.K. Rowling story
Rowling had said in previous interviews that Ron was an auror with Harry at the ministry of magic but Skeeter now claimed that he has had to leave for unknown reasons.
JK Rowling writes new 'Harry Potter' short tale
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a young journalist who, in the absence of her mother, a social butterfly, was raised by the house maid.
The Help: Race drama slightly diluted by moments of narrative ineptness
Skeeter Phelan, played by Emma Stone, is the daughter of an old, wealthy, socially connected white family in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Help
THE STORY In 1960s Mississippi, society girl Skeeter (Stone) turns to her best friend's black housekeeper aibileen (davis) to help her write a book about the black maids who spent their lives taking care of prominent Southern families.
Maids of honour in a touching tale; 60s CIVIL RIGHTS FIGHT REVISITED
Encouraged by an editor to write about something that disturbs her, Skeeter, an Ole Miss graduate in journalism, embarks on a project of secret interviews recording the experiences of women domestics.
The Help
The eminently likable Emm Stone plays the young journalist, a misfit debutante-turned-college grad named Skeeter Phelan, though the true hero is Viola Davis' Aibileen, the African-American maid who puts her life and career on the line; in the Jim Crow South, talking out of turn could get Aibileen lynched.
Maid-to-order drama
Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, home in Jacksonville, Mississippi after graduating college, is anxious to begin a career as a writer.
Christy's Bookshelf
Debbie Hunter and Alicia Michael, students at Ozarks Technical Community College, made the booklet called "Skeeter's Awesome Adventure." Hunter wrote the story, and Michael did the illustrations.
Missouri college students make booklet for USDA
Big-water walleye fans take note: Skeeter is expanding its Deep V Series family to five for 2009 with the new WX1950.
Skeeter unveils Fifth Deep V