different between vaunt vs skite

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt
• (some accents) IPA^(key): /v??nt/
• Rhymes: -??nt
• (US) IPA^(key): /v?nt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /v?nt/

Etymology 1

From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin v?nus (“vain, boastful”).

Verb

vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)

1. (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
   • 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC

     "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."

2. (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
3. (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.

Synonyms

• (speak boastfully): boast, brag

Derived terms

• vaunter

Translations

Noun

vaunt (plural vaunts)

1. A boast; an instance of vaunting.
   • 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book II, chapter III

     He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.

Translations

Etymology 2

French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.

Noun

vaunt (plural vaunts)

1. (obsolete) The first part.

Anagrams

• Tuvan

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)

1. (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
2. A trick.
3. A contemptible person.
4. (Ireland) A drinking binge.
5. (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)

1. (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.
2. (Northern Ireland) To skim or slide along a surface.
3. (Scotland, slang) To slip, such as on ice.
4. (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.
5. (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.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

skite (plural skites)

1. 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)

1. Alternative form of skita

Etymology 2

Adjective

skite

1. 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

1. to shit

Inflection

Related terms

• skyt

Further reading

• “skite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011