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Etymology

Old English noun scit(t)e, verb scitan, from a Common Germanic ancestor.

Pronunciation

  • w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /SIt/
  • w:IPA|IPA: /ʃɪt/

Noun

shit (slang, vulgar)

  1. Excrement; faecal matter.
    The toilet bowl was smeared with shit.
  2. (also load of shit) Rubbish; worthless matter.
    Move all of that shit out of your room!
  3. Nonsense; bullshit.
    Everything he says is a load of shit.
  4. A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
    Her son has been a real shit to her.
  5. (with negative terms) Nothing.
    His opinion is not worth shit = His opinion is worth nothing
  6. We don't have shit to live on = We have nothing to live on

Synonyms

(1) excrement, faeces/feces, faecal matter/fecal matter, cack, crap, droppings, dung, poo/pooh, poop, bowel movement, number two
(2) (all can be preceded with load of) crap, rubbish, trash (US)
(3) bollocks, crap, bullshit, wank (UK), pants (UK)
(4) (used of men) bastard, pig; (used of women) bitch, cow

Translations

Verb

to shit (shit / shat, shit / shat / formerly shitten past participle) (slang, vulgar)

  1. Intransitive To have a bowel_movement. Compare piss.
  2. Transitive to shit oneself (literally) to soil oneself (figurative) to be very scared.
  3. Transitive To excrete (something) through the anus.

Synonyms

(1) poop, poo, go_potty, relieve oneself, see a man about a horse, crap, do one's business, defecate, do a number two
(2) (literal sense) soil oneself; (figurative sense) wet oneself, shit one's pants, shit bricks
(3) excrete, pass

Translations

  • Catalan: cagar (1), cagar-se (2)
  • Dutch: schijten
  • Esperanto: feko, merdo
  • Finnish: paskantaa (1, 2), paskoa (1)
  • French: chier
  • German: scheißen
  • Guarani: poti (1)
  • Indonesian: buang air, buang air besar
  • Interlingua: defecar (1)
  • Italian: cacare, cagare (1)
  • Japanese: 大便をする (daiben wo suru)
  • Latin: cacare (1)
  • Portuguese: cagar (1); cagar-se, borrar-se (2)
  • Romanian: căca (1)
  • Spanish: cagar (1), cagarse (2)
  • Swedish: skiter

Verb

shit

  1. past tense of to shit

Translations

  • Dutch: scheet, scheten

Verb

shit

  1. past participle of to shit

Translations

  • Dutch: gescheten

Interjection

shit (also oh, shit) (not polite)

  1. Expression of worry or failure, often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before the outburst.
    Ex. Shit! I think that I forgot to put my sleeping_bag in my pack last night!
  2. Emphatic variants: holy shit, occasionally fucking shit.
  3. Also used as an expression of sympathy: Shit, I'm sorry to hear that.

Translations

Euphemisms

shoot, sugar.

Adjective

  1. Of poor quality; worthless.
    What a shitty film that was!
  2. Nasty; despicable.
    That was a shitty thing to do to him.

Synonyms

(1) shitty, crap, crappy, shit-awful
(2) shitty

Translations

  • Finnish: paska (1, 2)
  • French: merdique (1); salaud m (2)
  • Italian: merdoso (1); (2)

Expressions

  1. to be full of shit: to talk nonsense
  2. to have a shit: to defecate
  3. shit-for-brains: a stupid person
  4. to take a shit: to defecate
  5. tough shit: bad luck (in response to another's misfortune, either as a genuine expression of commiseration or gloatingly)

Related Words

apeshit, birdshit, bullshit, chickenshit, cowshit, dogshit, dumbshit, horseshit, shite, shitfaced, shithead, shitless, shitter, shitty, scatology, scatological



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