Words similar to skeat

Example sentences for: skeat

How can you use “skeat” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
By the time he entered his sixties, in 1895, Skeat gave the impression that he was beginning to take these matters a little less seriously:
Works of this kind are more often the products of individuals, in the great tradition of Johnson, Brewer, Skeat, Burger, and other--mostly earlier-- writers, than of teams of researchers and editors.
Indeed, the earlier Anglo-Saxons had little more luck with the voodoo h ; in a brief article in an 1888 issue of Notes and Queries , Prof. Skeat wrote: Only last week, I found ors for hors horse in an unedited A-S manuscript.
It goes without saying that not all targets of Skeat's wrath and contumely took his abuse lying down, notwithstanding his correctness in most matters etymological.