Skite

Origin

Probably from a variant of Old English scite ("dung") influenced by Old Norse skítr. Compare shit, shite.

Full definition of skite

Noun

1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
2. A contemptible person.
3. (Irish) A drinking binge.
• 2008, Tony Black, Paying for It, %22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=6XCmSnbRdj&sig=pfhC-TBmpfhoekHcRlhW6Q6Gnw8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NhdXUI28G62WiQfIg4DIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22skite%22|%22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 214,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.
4. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites, a boaster.

Verb

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
• a. 1918 The Ragtime Army, WWI Australian Army song, cited in 2004, Graham Seal, Inventing Anzac: The Digger And National Mythology, %22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=FPI339f7g5&sig=v0b4_bBECuKy5w9iAMOUDdFxKTU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GwdXUOXnBIyiiAftrIGQDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22skite%22|%22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 53,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.
• 2005, Kate Grenville, , %22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=VS_VMLWUdz&sig=cY6_jy3eVtd5cPN0nKA7xm4UNRo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=GBRXUPhji5GKB43VgXg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22skite%22|%22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 159,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?
• 2006, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, %22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=cwh-7XrANP&sig=Kld_HKe-kzpHb7OVxdlZeF-56qQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NhdXUI28G62WiQfIg4DIDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22skite%22|%22skites%22|%22skiting%22|%22skited%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 405,“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.”
2. (Northern Ireland) To skim or slide along a surface.
3. (Scotland, slang) To slip, such as on ice.
4. (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.
5. (archaic, vulgar) To shit.
• 1653, François Rabelais, (translator), , Chapter XIII: How Gargantua′s wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech,There is no need of 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.

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