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All 5 letters words made out of skite

skite ksite sikte iskte kiste ikste sktie kstie stkie tskie ktsie tksie sitke istke stike tsike itske tiske kitse iktse ktise tkise itkse tikse skiet ksiet siket isket kiset ikset skeit kseit sekit eskit kesit eksit siekt isekt seikt esikt ieskt eiskt kiest ikest keist ekist iekst eikst sktei kstei stkei tskei ktsei tksei sketi kseti sekti eskti kesti eksti steki tseki setki estki teski etski ktesi tkesi ketsi ektsi teksi etksi sitek istek stiek tsiek itsek tisek sietk isetk seitk esitk iestk eistk steik tseik setik estik tesik etsik itesk tiesk ietsk eitsk teisk etisk kites iktes kties tkies itkes tikes kiets ikets keits ekits iekts eikts kteis tkeis ketis ektis tekis etkis iteks tieks ietks eitks teiks etiks

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Definitions and meaning of skite

skite

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English skyt, skytte, skytt, from Old Norse skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skītaz, *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.

Noun

skite (plural skites)

1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
2. A trick.
3. A contemptible person.
4. (Ireland) A drinking binge.
5. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
6. (Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.

Verb

skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skiting, simple past and past participle skited)

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
   • a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7022-3447-7, page 53:

     You boast and skite from morn to night / And think you're very brave, / But the men who really did the job / Are dead and in their graves.
2. (Northern Ireland) To skim or slide along a surface.
3. (Scotland, slang) To slip, such as on ice.
4. (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.
5. (archaic, vulgar) To defecate, to shit.
   • 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, […], London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, OCLC 606994702; republished as The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, […], volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 23 New Oxford Street, W.C., [1921], OCLC 39370427, page 45:

     There is no need of wiping ones taile (said Gargantua), but when it is foule; foule it cannot be unlesse one have been a skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tailes.

Derived terms

Translations

Alternative forms

• skyte

Etymology 2

Noun

skite (plural skites)

1. Alternative spelling of skete

Anagrams

• Kites, kites, steik, stike, tikes

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse skita (“diarrhoea”), from skíta (“to defecate”).

Alternative forms

• skita, skitu (unofficial)
• skitu, skjutu, skjetu, skjøtu, skjeda (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ʃɪːtə/, /²ʃɪtə/

Noun

skite f (definite singular skita, indefinite plural skiter, definite plural skitene)

1. diarrhoea (UK) or diarrhea (US)

   Synonyms: drite, diaré

2. overly cheerfulness

Derived terms

• renneskite
• bråskite
• skiterempe

Etymology 2

Verb

skite (present tense skit, past tense skeit, supine skite, past participle skiten, present participle skitande, imperative skit)

1. Alternative form of skita

Etymology 3

Adjective

skite

1. neuter singular of skiten

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot, dart”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Danish skyde.

Verb

skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skitin, simple past skited, past participle skited)

1. (intransitive) to dart, to move rapidly
2. to ricochet, to rebound
3. to slip, to slide on a smooth surface; to skate on ice
4. (transitive) to pitch, to throw (something) forcibly
5. (transitive) to cause (liquid) to spray or squirt
6. to strike, to hit

Noun

skite (plural skites)

1. a sharp blow, a glancing blow
2. a bound, a sudden start
3. the act of shooting or squirting liquid

4. a spree, a frolic
5. a slip, a skid

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian skīta, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to part with, separate, cut off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskitə/

Verb

skite

1. to shit

Inflection

Related terms

• skyt

Further reading

• “skite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011