Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to wheedle.

1703		Hell Upon Earth 6: Skit, to weadle.
1708		J. Hall Memoirs (1714) 13: Skip, to Wheedle.
1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (2nd, 3rd edn).
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.

2. to tease.

2015

‘Elvis Costello’ Unfaithful Music 19: The worst of [my new school] was me being ‘skitted’ endlessly about my supposed ‘Cockney’ accent .