Noun: skite
| Singular | skite |
| Plural | skites |
Sample Sentences
-
When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite. [1958, George Desmond Hodnett, “Monto (Take Her Up to Monto)”:]
-
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. [2008, Tony Black, Paying for It, London: Preface, →ISBN, page 214:]
-
[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. [1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 74:]
-
We're going on a skite to Dublin.
Nouns inflected like skite
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English skyt, skytte, skytt, from Old Norse skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite. See: Middle English Nouns '
skyt', Old Norse Nouns '
skítr', Old English Nouns '
sċite'.