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skite
/skaɪt/
noun 6verb 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
dirty
VERB + SKITE
boast, go
SKITE + NOUN
morn
PREP.
from, on
Definitions
noun
1
A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
2
A trick.
3
A contemptible person.
When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite.
4
A drinking binge.
I needed alcohol to stop my nerves rattling. This felt like the longest period I'd been without my drug of choice for at least three years. I needed to go on a skite.
5
One who skites; a boaster.
[T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing.
verb
1
To boast.
You boast and skite from morn to night / And think you're very brave, / But the men who really did the job / Are dead and in their graves.
He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the mirror as he went to work on the bumfluff.
2
To skim or slide along a surface.
[…] skiting down that steep slope. But it's one thing to slide down a steep slope and quite another thing to climb back up - as Mary Jane soon discovered. Try her hardest , she simply could not get up that hill; she slid down faster than she went up.
[…] of rock shearing off and skiting down the cliff-face as a black guillotine blade.
3
To slip, such as on ice.
At this point I skited on a discarded banana and decided to use my eyes instead of my brains.
... skited on a particularly hazardous weet bit o' the harbour and fell flat in […]
4
To move swiftly; to move in leaps and bounds.
His very shuttle skytes boldly along, and clatters through in faithful time to the tune of his merrier shopmates!
... flashy blades gae skytin' by, […]
5
To pop, to quickly or briefly make a trip to.
[…] skiting over to Europe and back before you know it, taking notes on the way going and coming .
... skiting over to Hartford City and back in a day. I don't suppose we could hear all of it, but we heard most of it. We turned the corner on Madison Street, came up Washington, got to the front of the house, and Grandfather stopped the[…]
noun
1
Alternative spelling of skete.
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When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite.
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I needed alcohol to stop my nerves rattling. This felt like the longest period I'd been without my drug of choice for at least three years. I needed to go on a skite.
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[T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing.
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You boast and skite from morn to night / And think you're very brave, / But the men who really did the job / Are dead and in their graves.
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He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the
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That Smasher, he said, and forced laugh. My word he can spin a yarn! She glanced towards him, her face halved by the lamplight. Just skiting, you reckon?
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