Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To glide; slip; slide.
- To eject (liquid); squirt.
- noun A sudden dash; a smart shower: as, a skite of rain.
- noun A smart, glancing blow or slap: as, a skite on the lug.
- noun A squirt: or syringe.
- noun A trick: as, an ill skite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
- noun A contemptible person.
- noun Ireland A drinking
binge . - noun Australia, Ireland, New Zealand One who skites, a
boaster . - verb Australia, Ireland, New Zealand To
boast . - verb Northern Ireland To
skim or slide along a surface. - verb Scotland, slang To
slip , such as on ice. - verb Scotland, slang To drink a large amount of alcohol.
- verb archaic, vulgar To
shit .
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Examples
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When the two slaves heard his history, they laughed at him and chaffed him and said, Truly thou art skite103 and skite-son!
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Kings were wont to use a little of it as collyrium for the eyes and as a remedy in sickness and colic; and the Patriarchs used to mix their own skite390 with it, for that the skite of the
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When I have followed it, if Allah grant me recovery, I will give thee a slave-girl, who shall serve thee in they lifetime a service, wherewith Allah shall cut short thy term; and when thou diest and the Lord hurrieth thy soul to hell-fire, she shall blacken thy face with her skite, of her mourning for thee, and shall keen and beat her face, saying
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The allusion is to the vulgar saying, “Thou eatest skite!”
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, as soon as dawn was seen and the morning shone with its shine and sheen, the horsemen ran to their spears full keen and King Afridun summoned his chief Knights and Nobles and invested them with dresses of honour; and, drawing the sign of the cross on their brows, incensed them with the incense which as aforesaid was the skite of the Chief
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Bragging rights for a year, though I don't want to be a skite about it.
Archive 2007-09-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Mind you, I shouldn't skite, as by all accounts what should have been a routine win was almost thrown away.
Glorious Day RICHARD 2005
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Mind you, I shouldn't skite, as by all accounts what should have been a routine win was almost thrown away.
Archive 2005-09-01 RICHARD 2005
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Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
bilby commented on the word skite
"The doctors tried to make out that they were one and the same thing but they weren't; they worked on entirely different circuits. When it was the nerves were bad Sam went on a skite. The skite, of course, was good for the nerves but bad for the dyspepsia, and for months afterwards he'd be on a diet and doing walks in the country."
- Frank O'Connor, 'The Cheapjack'.
September 6, 2008
madmouth commented on the word skite
it doubled :/
April 30, 2009
madmouth commented on the word skite
also a variant of "shite".
There's no need wiping one's tail, said Gargantua, but when it is foul; foul it cannot be, unless one have been a-skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tails.
April 30, 2009