scuttling vs skitter

scuttling

noun
  • The motion of one who scuttles. 

  • The act by which a vessel is scuttled. 

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 scuttling and skitter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )