skiten.
/skʌɪt/, U.S. /skaɪt/, Scottish English /skʌit/ In senses 1-3, Scottish and northern dialect.
1. A sudden, vigorous stroke or blow, esp. one given in an oblique direction; an oblique impact, or one which causes a rebound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > [noun] > oblique
glance1570
skite?a1786
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > hard or vigorous striking > a hard or vigorous blow
rackc1300
pelta1540
sparring-blowa1690
racket1710
whack1737
skite1825
slogger1829
slug1830
swinger1836
slog1846
crump1850
bitch slap1987
?a1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 195 When hailstanes drive wi' bitter skyte, And infant Frosts begin to bite.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Skite, a smart and sudden blow, so as to make what strikes rebound in a slanting direction.
1895– in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Sc., N. Irel., Northumb.).
2. A trick; a skit. Cf. skit n.2 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > instance of
jest1578
jig1592
wilec1600
waggery1604
pleasance1668
quiz1795
practical joke1804
skite1804
skit1815
galliardise1842
leg-pull1893
rannygazoo1896
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax
pratOE
mowa1393
pageant?c1430
jimp?1572
prank1576
jest1578
jig1592
frump1593
trick1605
bilk1664
fun1699
plisky1706
humbug1750
hum1751
practical joke1751
marlock1763
quiz1795
practical joke1804
skite1804
hoax1808
skit1815
wrinkle1817
rusty1835
funny business1838
string1851
stringer1851
cod1862
mank1865
spoof1889
leg-pull1893
rannygazoo1896
shenanigan1926
gotcha1967
to throw a fastball1968
wind-up1984
1804 W. Tarras Poems 60 He's play'd my dochter Meg a skyte, Which weel has coft the gibbet.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) He's played me an ill skite.
1899 J. Lumsden Edinb. Poems & Songs 89 This Club..Enjoy'd thy witty ‘Tory’ skites Wi' hearty glee.
3. A person who on some account or other is regarded with contempt. (Cf. blatherskite n.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
1790 W. Maclay Jrnl. 28 June (1890) x. 310 Hamilton has a very boyish, giddy manner, and Scotch–Irish people could well call him a ‘skite’.
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Skyte
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiv. 318 But I maun speak to this gabbling skyte too, for bairns and fules speak at the Cross what they hear at the ingle side.
1850 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 136 Oh, such a withered up skite poor Mac is become.
4. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
a. Boasting, boastfulness; ostentation, show; conceit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
yelpc888
yelpinga1050
roosingc1175
boastc1300
avauntment1303
avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
bragc1360
avauntingc1380
boastingc1380
avauntance1393
angarda1400
bragging1399
vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
1860 C. R. Thatcher Victoria Songster v. 160 You don't often see a chap given to the 'skite, Can do very much when it comes to a fight.
1910 E. W. Hornung Boss of Taroomba 180 ‘Then none o' your skite, mate,’ said Bill, knocking out a clay pipe against his heel.
1918 G. Wall Lett. of Airman 85 This notepaper is a part of it, quite unnecessary skite. I thought you might like a sample of it, though.
1933 N. Lindsay Saturdee 115 Ponk's the bloke to take the skite outer him.
1958 I. Cross God Boy vi. 44 You started us off with your skite about not caring about fifty bangs and now you say shut up.
1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm ii. 31 ‘Alister Bridgeman says it's mostly skite,’ Sarah said breezily.
1972 P. Newton Sheep Thief xviii. 149 I thought I had a good district run but you've taken the skite out of me.
b. A braggart, a boaster; a conceited person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
yelper1340
avaunterc1374
braggerc1390
fare-makerc1440
seggerc1440
shakerc1440
vaunter1484
roosera1500
praterc1500
cracker1509
vouster?a1513
boaster1574
Thrasoa1576
braggarta1577
braver1589
glorioser1589
bragout1592
rodomont1592
braggadocio1594
gloriosoc1599
puckfist1600
burgullian1601
puff1601
forthputtera1610
rodomontado1609
ostentator1611
fanfaron1622
potgun1623
thrasonist1626
cracka1640
vapourer1653
braggadocian1654
rodomontadist1655
charlatan1670
brag1671
rodomontade1683
gasconader1709
rodomontader1730
Gascon1757
spread eagle1809
bag of wind1816
penny trumpeter1828
spraga1838
gasser1855
blow-hard1857
blower1863
crower1864
gabber1869
flannel-mouth1882
punk-fist1890
skiter1898
Tartarin1903
blow1904
skite1906
poofter1916
trombenik1922
shooter of lines1941
fat-mouth1942
wide-mouth1959
Wheneye1982
trash talker1986
braggarist-
1906 ‘T. Collins’ in Barrier Truth (Broken Hill, New S. Wales) 1 June In spite of Rigby's very complimentary insinuation that I'm a skite and a liar, the wagon was gone.
1928 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 Feb. 21/1 To the mug, the skite and the liar, to the nark and the hypocrite A fellow can always jerry.
1941 S. J. Baker N.Z. Slang vii. 61 Our borrowings [from Australia] of what might be described as ‘social’ slang..[include] skite.
1952 D. Niland in Coast to Coast 1951–2 198 And what a skite! You should have seen him.
1958 I. Cross God Boy i. 8 I'm not a skite but if I was fighting a man it would be the same.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai ii. 30 He had no time for ‘skites’, that is, boastful know-it-alls.
1969 Australian 23 Sept. 2 Australians should not see themselves as boastful, arrogant skites, the Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, said yesterday.
5. A jollification, a spree, a binge. Frequently in on the skite. Originally and chiefly Scottish.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > [noun]
mirthOE
joyc1275
jollitya1300
joy-makingc1330
good fellowship?c1430
wine and womena1450
junketing1555
merrymake1579
gaiety1612
jovialty1621
joviality1626
mirth-making1638
jovialness1658
jollitry?c1685
goodfellowhood1716
merrymaking1779
conviviality1791
jollification1818
making-merry1823
carnivalizing1841
skite1869
Wein, Weib, und Gesang1885
balling1942
1869 St. Andrews Gaz. 27 Nov. 3/6 A correspondent..sends the following..catalogue of synonyms of whisky and whisky drinking in the West of Scotland:—..on the skyte.
1895 W. Stewart Lilts 65 When ye went on the ‘skite’ an' sent railway things glee'd.
1909 J. J. Bell Oh! Christina xiv. 112 You an' me's gaun to ha'e an' awfu' skite, eh, auntie?
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 158 Skite (skyte), on the, indulging in an orgy; on ‘the tiles’.
1954 Times 16 Nov. 4/1 The Bejant skite (the party of the first-year students).
1972 N. Smythe in E. Berman Ten of Best (1979) 113 I was a bit too fond of the old jar, Went on the skite once too often.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
skitev.1
/skʌɪt/, U.S. /skaɪt/, Scottish English /skʌit/ Scottish and dialect.
intransitive. To void excrement.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [verb (intransitive)]
dritea1000
to do one's filthheadc1300
shit?c1335
to go to siegec1400
scumbera1425
cack1436
to do one's easementa1438
to ease nature, ease oneselfc1440
skite1449
to do of one's needingsc1475
fen1486
dung1508
spurge1530
to cover his feet1535
lask1540
stool1540
to exonerate nature1542
file1564
fiant1575
cucka1605
wray1620
exonerate1631
excrement1632
to do one's ease1645
sir-reverence1665
excrementizec1670
nest1679
poop1689
move1699
defecate1837
crap1874
mire1918
to make a mess1928
mess1937
to go poo-poo (also poo-poos)1960
potty1972
to do a whoopsie (or whoopsies)1973
pooh1975
1449 R. Wenyngton in Paston Lett. & Papers (2005) III. 69 I cam a-bord the Admirall and bade them stryke in the Kyngys name.., and they bade me go skyte in the Kyngys name.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax Prol. sig. B1 In further contempt of his name, vsed a phrase that he had learned at his being in the low Countreys, and bad Skite vpon Aiax.
1808 in J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 353.
Derivatives
ˈskiting adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > defecation or urination > defecation > [adjective]
skiting?a1513
subductive1649
shitting1693
excernent1835
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 I warne the, it is wittin How, skyttand skarth, thow hes the hurle behind.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
skitev.2
/skʌɪt/, U.S. /skaɪt/ 1. intransitive. To shoot or dart swiftly, esp. in an oblique direction; to run lightly and rapidly; to make off hastily. Scottish and dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly
windc897
shootc1000
smite?c1225
flatc1300
lash13..
girda1400
shock?a1400
spara1400
spritc1400
whipc1440
skrim1487
glance1489
spang1513
whip1540
squirt1570
flirt1582
fly1590
sprunt1601
flame1633
darta1640
strike1639
jump1720
skite1721
scoot1758
jink1789
arrow1827
twitch1836
skive1854
sprint1899
skyhoot1901
catapult1928
slingshot1969
book1977
1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 112 Like a shot starn, that thro the air Skyts east or west with unko glare.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) (at cited word) To skite about is to go running about.
1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel 325 It's a..young villain her son must be..to skyte off and lave her that-a-way.
2. intransitive. To slip suddenly. Scottish and dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide > suddenly
skite1871
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xl. 280 The ‘blower’ skytit oot o' Samie's mou'.
1881 J. Ballantine in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 3rd Ser. 29 Our feet skyted back on the road freezing hard.
3. intransitive. To brag, to boast. Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
yelpc888
kebc1315
glorify1340
to make avauntc1340
boast1377
brag1377
to shake boastc1380
glorya1382
to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
avaunt1471
glaster1513
voust1513
to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
jet?1521
vaunt?1521
crowa1529
rail1530
devauntc1540
brave1549
vaunt1611
thrasonize1619
vapour1629
ostentate1670
goster1673
flourish1674
rodomontade1681
taper1683
gasconade1717
stump1721
rift1794
mang1819
snigger1823
gab1825
cackle1847
to talk horse1855
skite1857
to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859
to shoot off one's mouth1864
spreadeagle1866
swank1874
bum1877
to sound off1918
woof1934
to shoot a line1941
to honk off1952
to mouth off1958
blow-
1857 C. R. Thatcher Colonial Songster 18 If ever you get into a fight, Of course you'll not forget to skite.
1896 E. Turner Little Larrikin xxiv. 295 It used to make me a bit sick sometimes to hear him skite, knowing how much chance I had.
1902 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 5 486 They had him skiting about his moonlight stroll with someone.
1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 79 I suppose he went back to his ship and skited about the time he'd had.
1956 G. Casey in Coast to Coast 1955–6 82 Spent most of the forty-eight hours skiting to his wife and young Les that he had got old Spend's goat thoroughly.
1968 A. Holden Death after School xxv. 181 They did save my life... I don't mind how much they skite.
1978 P. Grace Mutuwhenua xiv. 102 Everyone laughing, hugging Nanny who was skiting about her hat.
Derivatives
ˈskiter n. (in sense 3.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
yelper1340
avaunterc1374
braggerc1390
fare-makerc1440
seggerc1440
shakerc1440
vaunter1484
roosera1500
praterc1500
cracker1509
vouster?a1513
boaster1574
Thrasoa1576
braggarta1577
braver1589
glorioser1589
bragout1592
rodomont1592
braggadocio1594
gloriosoc1599
puckfist1600
burgullian1601
puff1601
forthputtera1610
rodomontado1609
ostentator1611
fanfaron1622
potgun1623
thrasonist1626
cracka1640
vapourer1653
braggadocian1654
rodomontadist1655
charlatan1670
brag1671
rodomontade1683
gasconader1709
rodomontader1730
Gascon1757
spread eagle1809
bag of wind1816
penny trumpeter1828
spraga1838
gasser1855
blow-hard1857
blower1863
crower1864
gabber1869
flannel-mouth1882
punk-fist1890
skiter1898
Tartarin1903
blow1904
skite1906
poofter1916
trombenik1922
shooter of lines1941
fat-mouth1942
wide-mouth1959
Wheneye1982
trash talker1986
braggarist-
1898 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. (Red Page) An incessant talker is a skiter or a fluter.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling ix. 77 A fellow, fed up with city skiters, came out west to the edge of beyond, and began this village, where he could do his own skiting.
ˈskiting n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
yelpc888
yelpinga1050
roosingc1175
boastc1300
avauntment1303
avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
bragc1360
avauntingc1380
boastingc1380
avauntance1393
angarda1400
bragging1399
vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
1916 Anzac Bk. 99 If there's one thing I hate, it is skiting... So you won't think I boast when I tell you.
1957 R. Lawler Summer of 17th Doll iii. 113 Lyin' comes as natural to him as skiting.
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