Meaning

(obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
2. A trick.
3. A contemptible person.
4. (Ireland) A drinking binge.
5. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
6. (Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.
7. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
8. (uncommon) To skim or slide along a surface.

Example Sentences

When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite.

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.

[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.

We're going on a skite to Dublin.

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.

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?

"England is mine," Henry says over a pint[…]. "I hope that's not skiting." / "That's not skiting, sport. Edward Garnett reckons you're the best new thing in the Empire, and so do I. Good on you, mate, nothing on earth can stop you now! Here's mud in your eye."

Word Forms

• skites
• skyte
• skiting
• skited

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