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skyte

skyte is the alternative form of skite.

Meaning of skite

Noun (1)

skite (plural skites)

  1. 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.1958, George Desmond Hodnett, “Monto (Take Her Up to Monto)”

Noun (2)

skite (plural skites)

  1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
  2. A trick.
  3. (Ireland) A drinking binge.
    • 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
  4. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
    • [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
  5. (Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.
    • We're going on a skite to Dublin.

See all 13 meanings of skite

Forms of skyte

Noun
pluralskytes
Verb
third-person singular presentskytes
present participleskyting
past participleskyted
pastskyted

Questions about skyte

What is skyte the alternative form of?
Skyte is the alternative form of skite.

Words near skyte in the dictionary

  1. Skysweeper
  2. Skysweepers
  3. skytale
  4. skytales
  5. Skytalism
  6. skyte
  7. skyted
  8. skytes
  9. skytime
  10. skyting
  11. skytube

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skyte (page history and authors); skite (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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