Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.
  • To glide; slip; slide.
  • To eject (liquid); squirt.

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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  • "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

  • it doubled :/

    April 30, 2009

  • 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