skite

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite.
  5. A drinking binge. Ireland
    — 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.
  6. One who skites; a boaster. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand
    — [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.
  7. A whimsical or leisurely trip. Ireland
    — We're going on a skite to Dublin.
动词 v.
  1. To boast. Australia,Ireland,New-Zealand
    — 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. To skim or slide along a surface. uncommon
    — […] 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. To slip, such as on ice. Scotland,especially
    — 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. To drink a large amount of alcohol. Scotland,slang
  7. To defecate, to shit. archaic,vulgar
    — 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.

词形变化

skites plural skyte alternative skites present,singular,third-person skiting participle,present skited participle,past skited past skyte alternative skites plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blatherskite cheapskate skitter skite-the-gutter

词源

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.
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