skite

What's the Greek for tobaccy?" they continued—"or for Larry O'Toole? or for bletherum skite?

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

Though, say she know it "ain't Old Kriss— He kissed her, so she waked an' saw Him skite out—an' it wuz her Pa."

From The Book of Joyous Children by Will Vawter

"Yes, the little skite and the ould sukee, the mawther," said Kisseck.

From She's All the World to Me by Sir Hall Caine

There is no need of wiping one's tail, said Gargantua, but when it is foul; foul it cannot be, unless one have been a-skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tails.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

I know the little skite like a top, Judge–and there’s one thing about her: She’s a loyal little body.

From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White

So he looked at Kaylajan and Kurajan and skited in his bag-trousers.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Eh, lad, but you’ve been walking widdershins: You’d best turn deazil, crook your thumbs, my callant, And gather cowgrass, if you’d break the spell, And send the old witch skiting on her broomstick.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

"Come, Philip, me strong protector," he called, "let's be skiting."

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

I saw you in town this morning, skiting about, from pillar to post, and says I to myself, 'There's uneasiness under that fine bonnet!'

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable