skitey adj.
(Aus./N.Z.) boastful.
![]() | Queenslander (Brisbane) 6 Sept. 56/2: He looked defiantly at the boy who had called him skitey. | |
![]() | Cunninghams (1986) 144: She didn’t look at Gilbert, and he felt she wasn’t looking at him on purpose and that made him seem skitey. | |
![]() | Dly Mirror 10 June 20/5: ‘Aye, the skitey lass, ye mean. She’s a blatherskite’. | |
![]() | Sydney Morn. Herald 17 Nov. 24/4: His autobiography is awful. Boring, skitey. | |
![]() | DSUE (8th edn) 1080/1: since ca. 1925. | |
![]() | Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 103/2: skitey boastful; c.1925. | |
![]() | Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |