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The meaning of SKITE is to move quickly or hurriedly. How to use skite in a sentence.
1. (intransitive) to slide or slip, as on ice. 2. (transitive) to strike with a sharp or glancing blow. noun. 3. an instance of sliding or slipping. 4. a sharp or glancing blow.
Skite definition: a quick, oblique blow or stroke; a chopping blow.. See examples of SKITE used in a sentence.
There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun skite. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in northern English regional dialect and Scottish English.
1. (intr) to slide or slip, as on ice. 2. (tr) to strike with a sharp or glancing blow. n. 3. an instance of sliding or slipping. 4. a sharp or glancing blow. 5. (Brewing) on the skite on a skite Scot and Irish on a drinking spree. [C18: of uncertain origin]
To shoot or dart swiftly, esp. in an oblique direction; to run lightly and rapidly; to make off hastily. Scottish and dialect. 1721. Like a shot starn, that thro the air Skyts east or west with unko glare.
Sep 27, 2024 · skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skitin, simple past skited, past participle skited) (intransitive) to dart, to move rapidly. to ricochet, to rebound. 1895, J Tweeddale, Moff: It only skited off ‘im like a shoor o’ hailstanes.
