Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To glide; slip; slide.
- To eject (liquid); squirt.
- n. A sudden dash; a smart shower: as, a skite of rain.
- n. A smart, glancing blow or slap: as, a skite on the lug.
- n. A squirt: or syringe.
- n. A trick: as, an ill skite.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
- n. A contemptible person.
- n. Ireland A drinking binge.
- n. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand One who skites, a boaster.
- v. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand To boast.
- v. Northern Ireland To skim or slide along a surface.
- v. Scotland, slang To slip, such as on ice.
- v. Scotland, slang To drink a large amount of alcohol.
- v. archaic, vulgar To shit.
Examples
“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”
“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”
“The allusion is to the vulgar saying, “Thou eatest skite!””
“When the two slaves heard his history, they laughed at him and chaffed him and said, Truly thou art skite103 and skite-son!”
“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”
“Bragging rights for a year, though I don't want to be a skite about it.”
“Mind you, I shouldn't skite, as by all accounts what should have been a routine win was almost thrown away.”
“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
“Charity done with and the price of a skite secured, they might risk a reasonable natter.”
“On the ran-tan, on the razzle, on a batter, on a skite.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘skite’.
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Rainy weather report.
Today's weather.
is it rain, sprinkles, showers, sleet, or drizzle?
Are those drops, droplets?
Is the weatherman just using the word precipitation?
Is the scientist causing ...rain, sprinkle, droplets, shower, precipitation, freezing rain, drops, drizzle, sleet, thundershower, mist, pour and 126 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
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Rabelation
Words and phrases from Urquhart and Motteaux's matchless translation of Rabelais' "Gargantua and Pantagruel" (available here).
Make bold with suggestions down in the comment box.bum-gut, torchecul, septembral juice, turdy, linkie pinkie, neat's tongues, variorum, fanfreluches, well-mouthed wench, the close buttock..., rataconniculation, beeves and 300 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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Interesting
Words I didn't know that might come in handy one day...
muniment, underlock, stochastic, stertorous, turnsole, littoral, Lemniscate, fugacity, rodomontade, ambes-ace, Apophasis, folderol and 74 more...
Tweets
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madmouth it doubled :/ Apr 30, 2009
madmouth 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. Apr 30, 2009
bilby "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'. Sep 6, 2008