Skated vs Skited - What's the difference?
skated | skited |
(skate)
A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
abbreviated form of ice skate or roller skate
The act of skateboarding
The act of roller skating or ice skating
To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates.
To skateboard
A fish of the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea (rays]]) which inhabit most seas. Skates generally have small heads with protruding , and wide [[fin#Noun, fins attached to a flat body.
(skite)
(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 ,
* 2005 , ,
* 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 ,
As verbs the difference between skated and skited
is that skated is past tense of skate while skited is past tense of skite.skated
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* *skate
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Etymology 1
.Noun
(en noun)- There's time for a quick skate before dinner.
- The boys had a skate every morning when the lake was frozen.
Verb
(skat)Derived terms
* get one's skates on * roller-skate * skateboard * skate on thin ice * skatepark * skaterEtymology 2
From (etyl) skata.Noun
(wikipedia skate) (en noun)Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----skited
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*skite
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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.