Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) an incessant talker; a braggart.

1894		Truth (Sydney) 6 May. 6/3: James J. Corbett is probably the windiest skiter on earth.
1898		Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Dec. Red Page: An incessant talker is a skiter or a fluter.
1907		Sun. Times (Perth) 21 July 4s/3: It’s then it dawns upon your mind, although you’re not a fool, / That you’ve done the graft and ‘barrack’ while the skiter scooped the pool.
1910		Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Dec. 19/1: Bet your life these two skiters simply got into a quiet pub at bedrock prices, and walked round and ogled a few demireps for an hour or two each night; then got in before closing time and made up crackers to unload on a credulous service.
1917		Osteralia ‘The Skiters’ Apr. n.p.: Of course we’re bloomin skiters – / We can do our bit of blow. / But we know our blanky brothers, / Who have gone along before, / Fought as well as most the others, / Though they ain’t quite won the war.
1919		Marion Star (OH) 12 Oct. 56/2: Texas Cattle Operations Puny by Aussie Standard. ‘As to the Texan skiters (boasters) we reckon our blokes would put it over them every time’.
1923		Gippsland Times (Vic.) 1 Oct. 5/3: Or per’aps some clever blighter / Cud make uv me a fighter; / But, er corse, not been a skiter / I do not wanter blab.
1935		Western Mail (Perth) 31 Mar. 2/4: The skiters had just finished on the war stories, mostly greatly enlarged upon.
1955		Stewart & Keesing Aus. Bush Ballads 234: ‘You’re a (bleeding gory) skiter,’ said Billy straight and blunt; / ‘When the (blessed) rams were finished you weren’t in the hunt.’ [AND].
1966		D. Niland Pairs and Loners 12: All you can do is skite. You’re the biggest skiter in this town.
1976		M. Powell Down Under 130: What an independent lot they were, not like the skiters in New South Wales and Victoria.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl.