subs. (Shrewsbury).—See quot.: cf. Scots’ SKYTE = fool.
1881. PASCOE, ed. Everyday Life in Our Public Schools, 166. Day-boys … live or lodge in the town; and the designation of ‘SKYTES’ (Σκυθής, an outcast) was formerly applied to them.
Verb. (old).—1. SKITE (q.v.); and (2) SQUITTER (q.v.).
ON THE SKYTE, phr. (Scots’).—Drunk: see SCREWED.
1872. Paston Letters, i. 85. Robert Weryngton to Thomas Daniel, May, 1449. And there I came about the Admirale, and bade them stryke in the Kyngys name of England, and they bade me SKYTE in the Kyngs name of England.
