How to pronounce “skitter” in English

There's a sense of the timeline of the Skittersill Rising, which was the subject of "Last First Snow," that isn't really reflected in "Two Serpents Rise," which I wrote earlier,

Heart beating, a skittering stone loose at the steps, she pushed the door open with her foot and straight into the kitchen.

So it's like, the word skittered from his tongue like a cockroach-- better.

But for most people that spot light and vacuum cleaner is very skittery. They can't rest it and keep it at some place where they wanna keep it or they can't move it very readily

"Your body has become a hatchery from which spiderlings of dread erupt, and skitter.

Ingray suppressed a start as another spider mech came skittering out of the airlock.

Weirdly, disturbingly graceful, it skittered up to Captain Uisine and stopped, turned one of its far too many stalked eyes toward Ingray--