skite

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He would never skite or tell you anything about himself.

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  • He would never skite or tell you anything about himself. —  northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
  • [FN#601] O my brother," and the man would shout out saying, "Allah ruin thy natal realm, are we at skite or at feast?" —  Arabian nights. English
  • It hath reached me, O auspicious King, the director, the right-guiding, lord of the rede which is benefiting and of deeds fair-seeming and worthy celebrating, that the Cairene Lack-tact kept bespeaking that sorely distressed man and following him as he fled, crying out to him and saying, "Away from me, am I not this moment about to skite or am I at a feast?" —  Arabian nights. English
  • When the two slaves heard his history, they laughed at him and chaffed him and said, "Truly thou art skite[FN#103] and skite-son! —  Arabian nights. English
  • I sat bewildered on a coruscating Niagara of blatherum-skite. —  American Notes
 

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  1. Also skyte; a Scots variant of skit.
  2. Also skyte; from skite, v.
 

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