skite
A contemptible personA contemptible person.
Meaning
6 sensesA contemptible person.
A trick.
(Ireland)A drinking binge.
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand)One who skites; a boaster.
(Ireland)A whimsical or leisurely trip.
We're going on a skite to Dublin.
(obsolete)A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
Origin
From Middle English skit, from Old Norse *skitr, older form of skítr (“dung, faeces”), froFrom Middle English skit, from Old Norse *skitr, older form of skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.
Inherited from Middle English *skiten, from Old Norse skýt-, present singular stem of skjóta (“to shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-. Doublet of shoot.
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