skite

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

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

What's the Greek for tobaccy?" they continued—"or for Larry O'Toole? or for bletherum skite?

From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

His "skite" had cost him a good deal of money, and he intended to make good some of the loss by economising on his marriage.

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

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 William Allen White

To go to sea with his feet fast in such a little skite of a craft as that!

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

So he looked at Kaylajan and Kurajan and skited in his bag-trousers.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

"Come, Philip, me strong protector," he called, "let's be skiting."

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

I saw you in town this morning, skiting about, from pillar to post, and says I to myself, 'There's uneasiness under that fine bonnet!'

From A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable

Eh, lad, but you’ve been walking widdershins: You’d best turn deazil, crook your thumbs, my callant, And gather cowgrass, if you’d break the spell, And send the old witch skiting on her broomstick.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson