barn dance vs skitter

barn dance

noun
  • A type of set step routine dancing, such as square dance. 

verb
  • To take part in barn dancing. 

skitter

noun
  • A skittering movement. 

  • Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement. 

verb
  • To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering. 

  • To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry. 

  • To cause to have diarrhea. 

  • To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement. 

  • To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite. 

How often have the words barn dance and skitter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )