Squirt : (액체/가스 등을) 찍 뿌리다, 찍 짜다, 찍 나오다, 찍 뿌려지다, (~에 대고)물줄기를 쏘다, (액체가)찍나옴, 찍 뿌려짐, 별 볼일 없는놈, 별 볼일 없는 인간, 작고 하찮은 인간
Squit = Squirt : 별 볼일 없는놈, 별 볼일 없는 인간, 작고 하찮은 인간
The Squits : (영국 슬랭) 설사
1)
to squirt, liquid squirts out
I squirted some ketchup onto my hamburger
I opened the tap and the water squirted me
I squeezed the piece of lemon and the lemon juice squirted in my eyes
squirt is like a jet of liquid
it's a fast stream of liquid
I came home to discover that a pipe had broken and there was water squirting all over the floor
if you've got a water pistol, you could squirt somebody with your water pistol
if you want to lubricate this, just give it a squirt of oil here
give it a squirt of washing-up liquid
the water squirted everywhere
2)
now you can also refer to a person as a squirt
very often you refer to a kid as a squirt
somebody who's not important and mayby somebody who you don't like very much
if you call somebody a squirt, you are being nasty, derogative about them
that little squirt was digging in my garden again
a squirt, a small irrelevant unimportant person
a person of little significant
I'am sick of th eboss treating me like a squirt
this is informal and British
the authorities treat all of us as if we were squirts instead of people
generally a squirt, firstly it means small not very big
he is only a little squirt of a man, a small person but you also use it just saying more generally somebody who's insignificant or contemptible
you can also use a squit in this exactly the same way
he's just such a squit, a little insignificant unimportant person
somebody of no consequence
that squit just annoys me so much
a contemptible little person
3)
The squits, gotta be plural
this is British slang for diarrhea when you've got tummy problems
ejecting a liquid in a stream
I ate something and I've got a terrible case of the squits
I wouldn't eat that it'll give you the squits
very informal slang
Formality : 5 for to squirt and a squirt of ketchup
Formality : 3.5 for a little squirt, a little squit
Formality : 2.5 for The squits of tummy problems
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