Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Aus./N.Z.) boastful.

1928		Queenslander (Brisbane) 6 Sept. 56/2: He looked defiantly at the boy who had called him skitey.
1948		D. Ballantyne 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.
1964		Dly Mirror 10 June 20/5: ‘Aye, the skitey lass, ye mean. She’s a blatherskite’.
1973		Sydney Morn. Herald 17 Nov. 24/4: His autobiography is awful. Boring, skitey.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1080/1: since ca. 1925.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 103/2: skitey boastful; c.1925.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].