skite

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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 White, William Allen

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

"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