skite

Example Sentences

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Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

"Perhaps you think I'm off on the skite again, but I'm not."

From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

To go to sea with his feet fast in such a little skite of a craft as that!

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

"To eat skite" is to talk or act foolishly.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Vawter, Will