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9461 Etymology dictionary, p. skeet (n.).3
In a list of "Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi," [H.A. Shands, 1893] is an entry for skeet : "Illiterate whites use this word to mean to move swiftly to flee to run and also to skate and from this last it is probably derived."
9462 Etymology dictionary, p. skew (v.).2
c. 1400, "turn aside, take an oblique course, run obliquely or at an angle," also "escape," intransitive senses now archaic or obsolete, from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew; also compare shy (adj.)).
9463 Etymology dictionary, p. ski-lift (n.).2
by 1949, "mechanical system used to carry skiers up a slope to the top of a run," from ski + lift (n.) in the "hoisting machinery" sense.
9464 Etymology dictionary, p. skip (v.).2
… a run," from Proto-Germanic *skupan (source also of Old Swedish skuppa, dialectal Swedish skimpa, skopa "to skip, leap"). Related: Skipped; skipping .
9465 Etymology dictionary, p. skip (v.).5
… "to run, go, rush, flee," also "to make off, hasten away. To skip out "run out, flee" is by late 14c. (in Middle English it also meant "leap up, spring forth"). The modern transitive …
9466 Etymology dictionary, p. skitter (v.).2
"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 …
9467 Etymology dictionary, p. skittish (adj.).3
The sense of "shy, easily frightened, nervous, apt to run" is by c. 1500, of horses. The meaning "changeable, fickle, inconstant" is from c. 1600; that of "inclined to be coy or reserved" is from 1640s. Related: Skittishly; skittishness .
9468 Etymology dictionary, p. slam (n.2).3
… "home run with the bases loaded" is by 1935, probably a natural extension from the card game sense, with suggestion of slam (n.1). It also was the name of a brand of …
9469 Etymology dictionary, p. slang (n.).3
… land running up between other and larger divisions of ground" and the verb slanger "linger, go slowly," which is of Scandinavian origin (compare Norwegian slenge …
9470 Etymology dictionary, p. slide (n.).4
… base-running sense in baseball is attested by 1886. Slide-guitar is from 1968; the effect is attained by sliding an object (beer bottle neck, etc.) along the strings …
9471 Etymology dictionary, p. slot (n.1).4
… car runs.
9472 Etymology dictionary, p. slur (v.).2
… smooth, run-together manner," from 1746; of speech, "become indistinct through imperfect articulation," by 1827. Related: Slurred; slurring .
9473 Etymology dictionary, p. slur (n.).4
… , a running together of sounds or words" is by 1861. All these seem to represent the "sliding" sense.
9474 Etymology dictionary, p. snivel (v.).2
Middle English, from Old English *snyflan "run at the nose" (implied in snyflung "running of the nose"), verb from snofl "nasal mucus;" see snout .
9475 Etymology dictionary, p. sobeit (conj.).2
"if it be so, provided that," 1580s, from a running together of so be it, "one of our few surviving subjunctives" [Weekley].
9476 Etymology dictionary, p. soever (adv.).2
1550s, from a running together of so + ever. "A word generally used in composition to extend or render indefinite the sense of such words as who, what, where, when, how, etc. ...." [Century Dictionary].
9477 Etymology dictionary, p. soup (v.).2
"increase the horsepower of an engine," 1921, probably from soup (n.) in slang sense of "narcotic injected into horses to make them run faster" (1911) and influenced by supercharge (v.). Related: Souped-up (1931).
9478 Etymology dictionary, p. spanking (adj.).2
… , spakkern, "run quickly, gallop."
9479 Etymology dictionary, p. spill (v.).4
… or run out" developed mid-14c.; the meaning "flow out of a container onto the ground" is from early 15c. This evolution out of the "kill" sense might be from use of the …
9480 Etymology dictionary, p. spill (v.).5
… of "run out and become wasted" is from 1650s. Also, of a river, etc., "to run or flow over the brim," 1650s. Spill the beans is recorded by 1910 in a sense of "spoil the situation …