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skite¹

  • /skaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

From Middle English skit, from Old Norse *skitr, older form of skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.

noun skites · skyte

  1. 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.

skite²

  • /skaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English skiten, from Old Norse skíta, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt. Doublet of shit and shite.

verb skites · skiting · skited

  1. archaic, vulgar 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.

skite³

  • /skaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

Inherited from Middle English *skiten, from Old Norse skýt-, present singular stem of skjóta (“to shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-. Doublet of shoot.

noun skites · skyte

  1. obsolete A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
  2. A trick.
  3. 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.
  4. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand 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.
  5. Ireland A whimsical or leisurely trip. We're going on a skite to Dublin.

verb skites · skiting · skited · skyte

  1. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand 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.
  2. uncommon To skim or slide along a surface. […] skiting down that steep slope. But it's one thing to slide down a steep slope and quite another thing to climb back up - as Mary Jane soon discovered. Try her hardest , she simply could not get up that hill; she slid down faster than she went up.
  3. Scotland, especially 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.
  4. 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!
  5. 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 .
  6. Scotland, slang To drink a large amount of alcohol.

skite⁴

  • /skaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

noun skites

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of skete

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@misc{skite_2026,
  title = {skite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/skite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}