skites

Verb (1)

skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skiting, simple past and past participle skited)

1. (archaic, vulgar) To defecate, to shit.
   • 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.1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book...

Verb (2)

skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skiting, simple past and past participle skited)

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
   • 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.a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St....
2. (uncommon) To skim or slide along a surface.
   • […] 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.2022(?), Clara Ingram Judson, Mary Jane at School
3. (Scotland, especially) To slip, such as on ice.
   • At this point I skited on a discarded banana and decided to use my eyes instead of my brains.1929, John Joy Bell, Meet Mr. Craw, page 25
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!1880, William Thom, Rhymes and recollections of a hand-loom weaver. ed., with a biogr. sketch, by W. Skinner, page 8
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 .1925, The Lariat, volumes 5-6, page 351

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