Skite vs Suite - What's the difference?
skite | suite |
(obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
A contemptible person.
(Irish) A drinking binge.
* 2008 , Tony Black, Paying for It ,
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites , a boaster.
(Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
* The Ragtime Army'', WWI Australian Army song, cited in 2004, Graham Seal, ''Inventing Anzac: The Digger And National Mythology ,
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* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
(Northern Ireland) To skim or slide along a surface.
(Scotland, slang) To slip, such as on ice.
(Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.
(archaic, vulgar) To shit.
* 1653 , '', Chapter XIII: ''How Gargantua?s wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech ,
A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite'' is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet ''The Nutcracker'', and the ''Carmen Suite'' is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera ''Carmen .
As nouns the difference between skite and suite
is that skite is a sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow while suite is a retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.As a verb skite
is to boast.skite
English
Noun
(en noun)page 214,
- 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 .
Verb
(skit)page 53,
- 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.
page 159,
- 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?
page 405,
- “England is mine,” Henry says over a pint. “I hope that?s not skiting .”
- “That?s not skiting , sport. Edward Garnett reckons you?re the best new thing in the Empire, and so do I. Good on you, mate, nothing on earth can stop you now! Here?s mud in your eye.”
- There is no need of wiping one?s tail, said Gargantua, but when it is foul; foul it cannot be, unless one have been a-skiting'; ' skite then we must before we wipe our tails.
Anagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}