Smites vs Skites - What's the difference?
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(smite)
(lb) To hit.
*(Bible), (w) v.39:
*:Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.IV:
*:"Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
To injure with divine power.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
To strike with love or infatuation.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:the charms that smite the simple heart
(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 smites and skites
is that smites is (smite) while skites is (skite).smites
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* * *smite
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* (l), (l), (l), (l), , (l), (l), (l), (l) ----skites
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(head)skite
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(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 .
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(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.