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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