skite

Example Sentences

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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 Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

"To eat skite" is to talk or act foolishly.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Therefore be assured that to-morrow I will make this vain-glorious Englishman to skite vinegar before all the world.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

And all were sore pressed wanting to pass urine or to skite; so whenever a man entered the place in a hurry he would draw the door to.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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

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