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skite
noun- a boaster AUSTRALIA, 1897
- “Stinkin’ skite,” he muttered at Sam Gudgeon[.] — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 29, 1947
- You’re a damn skite. — D.E. Charlwood, All the Green Year, p. 30, 1965
- “Well, I’m Bill Brown, the new Fisheries Inspector.” The skite blinked twice, gulped into his beer and replied, “Do you know who I am? I’m the biggest bloody liar in Yanco!” — Bob Staines, Wot a Whopper, p. 13, 1982
- — Harry Orsman and Des Hurley, The Beaut Little Book of New Zealand Slang, 1994
- boastful talk AUSTRALIA, 1860
- Because I slung off at that cow Freddie Parkin putting on skite doing a line with Lottie Treebie. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 97, 1947
- a glancing blow UK: SCOTLAND, 1985
- NESBITT (ANOTHER SKITE): Shuttit you! — Ian Pattison, Rab C. Nesbitt, 1988
▶ on the skite
engaged in a drinking binge IRELAND- The back door was open and the sink was full of pilchard tins. Da ate pilchards when he was on the skite. — Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy, p. 43, 1992
- I was on the skite with him on his last night in Boston[.] — Eamonn Sweeney, Waiting for the Healer, p. 153, 1997
- I needed to go on a skite. — Tony Black, Paying For It, p. 214, 2008
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