skite
A sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
obsolete
A trick.
A drinking binge.
I needed alcohol to stop my nerves rattling. This felt like the longest period I'd been without my drug of choice for at least three years. I needed to go on a skite.
One who skites; a boaster.
[T]he Rooster was one of those fine, upstanding, bumptious skites who love to talk all day, in the heartiest manner, to total strangers while their wives do the washing.
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English *skiten, from Old Norse skýt-, present singular stem of skjóta (“to shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd-. Doublet of shoot.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry skite (CC BY-SA 4.0).