Meaning of skite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
   obsolete
2. Alternative spelling of skete.
   alt-of, alternative
3. A trick.
4. A contemptible person.
5. A drinking binge.
   Ireland
6. One who skites; a boaster.
   Australia, Ireland, New-Zealand
7. A whimsical or leisurely trip.
   Ireland

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Examples

“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.”

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