skitty2 n also skeety, skit*. A biting fly; MOSOUITO, NIPPER1.
[1894 BURKE] 45 Oh their [trouters'] faces were all raw, / Where the 'skeety' had his chaw. P 126-67 The skits are biting me. C 68-24 [tall tale] I took off me cape ann and me oil-jacket and put them on the dought [thwart]. The skitties was so tick that when I slewed around they was lugging away me clothes. One bunch had the cape ann, and another had me oil-jacket.
