noun

• (obsolete) A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
• (Ireland) A drinking binge.
  "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."
• (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) One who skites; a boaster.
  "[T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing."
• (Ireland) A whimsical or leisurely trip.
  "We're going on a skite to Dublin."

verb

• (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) To boast.
  "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."
• (uncommon) To skim or slide along a surface.
  "[…] skiting down that steep slope. But it's one thing to slide down a steep slope and quite another thing to climb back up - as Mary Jane soon discovered. Try her hardest , she simply could not get up that hill; she slid down faster than she went up."
• (especially Scotland) To slip, such as on ice.
  "At this point I skited on a discarded banana and decided to use my eyes instead of my brains."
• (Scotland, slang) To drink a large amount of alcohol.