skite
/skaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
A trick.
Example Sentences
- "When Carey told on Skin-the-Goat / O'Donnell caught him on the boat / He wished he'd never been afloat / The dirty skite."
- "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."
- "I needed alcohol to stop my nerves rattling. This felt like the longest period I'd been without my drug of choice for at least three years. I needed to go on a skite."
- "[T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing."
- "We're going on a skite to Dublin."
- "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."