shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shĭt
ipa: /ʃɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: shits
form: s--t
form: s**t
form: s—t
form: shite
form: sheeyit
form: sheeit
form: sheit
form: shiet
form: shi
form: shii
form: shet
Etymology: From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.
ref: 2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:
synonyms: word: boo-boo
word: boom-boom
word: caca
word: cack
word: chocolate
word: chocolate hot dog
word: crap
word: crud
word: danna
word: dejection
word: dirt
word: do do
word: doo-doo
word: doody
word: dook
word: dookie
word: dooky
word: droppings
word: dump
word: dumplings
word: dung
word: Eartha
word: Eartha Kitt
word: excrement
word: faeces
word: faex
word: fecal matter
word: feces
word: flop
word: fudge
word: gong
word: guano
word: ish
word: jobby
word: log
word: merd
word: muck
word: nature
word: night soil
word: number two
word: ordure
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: poopie
word: poo-poo
word: poopy
word: pure
word: purging
word: scat
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shite
word: soil
word: stool
word: thost
word: tom tit
word: turd
word: waste
glosses: Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
glosses: The act of shitting.
examples: text: Throw that shit out!
text: Get rid of that shit!
text: Bring that shit to the disposal.
glosses: Rubbish; worthless matter.
examples: text: I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
text: Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
text: JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.
ref: 1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema:
text: Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away
ref: 2001, “Zip City”, performed by Mike Cooley:
text: He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Stuff, things.
examples: text: These grapes are the shit!
glosses: (the shit) The best of its kind.
examples: text: jerk one's shit
glosses: Genitalia, especially male.
examples: text: Everything he says is a load of shit.
text: Enough of this shit!
text: Quit your shit!
text: What is this shit?
text: Aw, this shit again?
synonyms: word: absurdity
word: all my eye
word: all my eye and Betty Martin
word: applesauce
word: bafflegab
word: balderdash
word: balls
word: baloney
word: banana oil
word: Bandini
word: baragouin
word: batcrap
word: batshit
word: bilgewater
word: blah
word: blather
word: blatherskite
word: bobbins
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: BS
word: bull
word: bullcrap
word: bulldust
word: bull feathers
word: bullshit
word: bullspeak
word: bunk
word: bunkum
word: bushwah
word: clamjamfrey
word: claptrap
word: cobblers
word: codswallop
word: crap
word: crock
word: crock of shit
word: double Dutch
word: double talk
word: doublespeak
word: dribble
word: drivel
word: eyewash
word: fiddle-faddle
word: flapdoodle
word: flim-flam
word: flizz
word: flummery
word: folderol
word: foolishness
word: footle
word: framis
word: fuckery
word: fuckry
word: fudge
word: galimatias
word: garbage
word: garble
word: gibber
word: gibberish
word: gobbledygook
word: gossip
word: Greek
word: guff
word: gup
word: hoax
word: hocus-pocus
word: hogwash
word: hokum
word: hooey
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horse piss
word: horse puckey
word: horseshit
word: humbug
word: Irish bull
word: jabber
word: jargon
word: jibber-jabber
word: jimjam
word: jive
word: junk
word: lallation
word: macaroni
word: malarkey
word: manure
word: meaninglessness
word: moonshine
word: mumbo jumbo
word: nertz
word: nonsense
word: pie in the sky
word: piffle
word: pigswill
word: poppycock
word: prattle
word: put-on
word: rhubarb
word: rhubarb rhubarb
word: rigmarole
word: rot
word: rubbish
word: ruse
word: santorum
word: shit
word: shite
word: skimble-skamble
word: squit
word: stuff
word: stuff and nonsense
word: tommy-rot
word: tosh
word: tush
word: trash
word: tripe
word: twaddle
word: wass
word: whiff-whaff
word: word salad
glosses: Nonsense; bullshit.
examples: text: Her son has been a real shit to her.
text: I am a shit and a rotter.
text: Get the fuck out of here you little shit!
glosses: A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
examples: text: We don’t have shit to live on.
translation: We don’t have anything to live on.
english: We don’t have anything to live on.
text: John can't sing for shit.
translation: John can't sing at all.
english: John can't sing at all.
text: You ain't shit.
translation: You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.
english: You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.
glosses: (in negations) Anything.
examples: text: I don't give a shit.
synonyms: fuck
damn
glosses: The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
examples: text: I'm in some serious shit.
text: Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
glosses: A problem or difficult situation.
examples: text: I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
glosses: A strong rebuke.
examples: text: ‘Now,’ he said, ‘if someone would close the curtains and light a joss-stick, I have here for your delight some twenty-four-carat black Nepalese cannabis resin which should be smoked immediately on account of it being seriously good shit.’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 20:
glosses: Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
examples: text: I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?
glosses: Anything exceptional or remarkable.