skite /skaɪt/verb 7noun 6forms 3 verb7 •(Australia, Ireland) 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. — 1918 •To skim or slide along a surface.[…] of rock shearing off and skiting down the cliff-face as a black guillotine blade. — 2024 •(Scotland) 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. — 1929 •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! — 1880 •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 . — 1925 •(Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol. •(vulgar, no longer used) To defecate, to shit.There is no need of wiping ones taile (said Gargantua), but when it is foule; foule it cannot be unlesse one have been a skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tailes. — 1653 noun6 •(Australia, Ireland) 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. — 1918 •(Ireland) 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. — 2008 •(Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.We're going on a skite to Dublin. •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. — 1958 •A trick. •(no longer used) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow. formsskited · skiting · skites
