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Is skite a Scrabble word?

Yes, skite is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of skite?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.obsolete

2. (Ireland) A drinking binge.Examples: "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."Ireland

3. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.Examples: "[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."AustraliaIrelandNew-Zealand

4. (Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.Examples: "We're going on a skite to Dublin."Ireland

verb (English)

1. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.Examples: "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."; "He still had bumfluff on his cheeks, he was that young. About once a month he used to shave it off, and come skiting about it. I smiled at the memory of him all lathered up, grinning at me through the mirror as he went to work on the bumfluff."; "That Smasher, he said, and forced laugh. My word he can spin a yarn! She glanced towards him, her face halved by the lamplight. Just skiting, you reckon?"AustraliaIrelandNew-Zealand

2. (uncommon) To skim or slide along a surface.Examples: "[…] skiting down that steep slope. But it's one thing to slide down a steep slope and quite another thing to climb back up - as Mary Jane soon discovered. Try her hardest , she simply could not get up that hill; she slid down faster than she went up."; "[…] of rock shearing off and skiting down the cliff-face as a black guillotine blade."uncommon

3. (especially Scotland) To slip, such as on ice.Examples: "At this point I skited on a discarded banana and decided to use my eyes instead of my brains."; "... skited on a particularly hazardous weet bit o' the harbour and fell flat in […]"; "... skited on the way and nearly took a tumble. Inside there's a fire, but the room's that big there's lacings of frost on all the windows. Forty beds reeking and heaving; devils dancing about and between. Devils waiting for souls[…]"Scotlandespecially

4. (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.Scotlandslang

5. (archaic, vulgar) To defecate, to shit.Examples: "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."archaicvulgar

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "skite"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "skite"?

Scrabble
9 points
S1
K5
I1
T1
E1
Words With Friends
9 points
S1
K5
I1
T1
E1

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