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slite
English
Alternative forms
- sleight, slight
- slyte (Scotland)
Etymology
From Middle English sliten, from Old English sl?tan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *sl?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sl?tan? (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”).
Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sla?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Verb
slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slote or slited, past participle slit or slitten or slited)
- (transitive, dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
- (transitive, dialectal) To wear away (clothes).
Noun
slite (uncountable)
- (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.
Anagrams
- IELTS, Leist, Steil, e-list, islet, istle, liest, lites, stile, teils, tiles
Irish
Alternative forms
- slighte (obsolete)
Noun
slite f
- plural of slí
Mutation
Further reading
- "slite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “slite” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “slite” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse slíta
Verb
slite (imperative slit, present tense sliter, passive slites, simple past slet or sleit, past participle slitt, present participle slitende)
- to wear (ut / out)
- to struggle (med / with)
Derived terms
- slitesterk
- nedslitt
- utslitt
References
- “slite” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
slite (present tense slit, past tense sleit, supine slite, past participle sliten, present participle slitande, imperative slit)
- Alternative form of slita
Derived terms
- slitesterk
Adjective
slite
- neuter singular of sliten
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skite
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ska?t/
Etymology 1
From Middle English skyt, skytte, skytt, from Old Norse skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *sk?taz, *skitiz. Cognate with Old English s?ite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.
Noun
skite (plural skites)
- (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
- A trick.
- A contemptible person.
- (Ireland) A drinking binge.
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
Verb
skite (third-person singular simple present skites, present participle skiting, simple past and past participle skited)
- (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
- a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7022-3447-7, 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.
- a. 1918, “The Ragtime Army” [World War I Australian Army song], cited in Graham Seal, “The Singing Soldiers”, in Inventing Anzac: The Digger and National Mythology (UQP Australian Studies), St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press in association with the API Network, Australia Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7022-3447-7, page 53:
- (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 defecate, to shit.
- 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bachus, and Response of the Bottle. Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle, London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, OCLC 606994702; republished as The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel: Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle: Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 23 New Oxford Street, W.C., [1921], OCLC 39370427, page 45:
- 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.
- 1653, François Rabelais; Thomas Urquhart, transl., “How Gargantua's Wonderful Understanding Became Known to His Father Grangousier, by the Invention of a Torchecul or Wipebreech”, in The First Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bachus, and Response of the Bottle. Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle, London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, OCLC 606994702; republished as The Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick. Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua and His Sonne Pantagruel: Together with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, the Oracle of the Divine Bacbuc, and Response of the Bottle: Hereunto are Annexed the Navigations unto the Sounding Isle, and the Isle of the Apedefts: as likewise the Philosophical Cream with a Limosin Epistle [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Privately printed for the Navarre Society Limited, 23 New Oxford Street, W.C., [1921], OCLC 39370427, page 45:
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
skite (plural skites)
- Alternative spelling of skete
Anagrams
- Kites, kites, steik, stike, tikes
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
skite (present tense skit, past tense skeit, supine skite, past participle skiten, present participle skitande, imperative skit)
- Alternative form of skita
Etymology 2
Adjective
skite
- neuter singular of skiten
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian sk?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sk?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to part with, separate, cut off”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?skit?/
Verb
skite
- to shit
Inflection
Related terms
- skyt
Further reading
- “skite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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