Skeet (Newfoundland)

The noun skeet in Newfoundland and Labrador English is considered to be a pejorative epithet. Though it has never been formally defined in the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, it is used as a stereotype to describe someone who is ignorant, aggressive, and unruly, with a pattern of vernacular use of English, drug and alcohol use, and who is involved in petty crime, very similar to the word "chav" used in the UK.[1]

From this noun, the adjective "skeety" is derived.

  1. ^ Pierce, Leslie (2006). "'Not the Cream of the Crop': Using the Word Skeet as Vernacular Speech in Newfoundland". FSAC.