shit
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *skittjā
Old English sċitte
Old English *sċite
Middle English schite
English shit
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.
Inflected forms:
form: shits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: s--t
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: s**t
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: s—t
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Ireland
UK
form: sheeyit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheeit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shiet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shii
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
slang
form: shitter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more shit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shittest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most shit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: s--t
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: s**t
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: s—t
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Ireland
UK
form: sheeyit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sheeit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sheit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shiet
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shii
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shet
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
slang
form: shits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shat
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shitted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: shit
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: shat
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: shit
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: shitten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
literally
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: 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.
He also decided that Belters wouldn’t use the term “bullshit,” because there would be no bulls in the Belt. Instead, they would come up with a uniquely Belter curse, “kaka felota,” a term for what happens when your toilet backs up in low gravity and shit floats all over the place. (“Kata felota” literally means “floating shit.”)
gloss: The act of shitting.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
informal
literally
usually
vulgar
gloss: Rubbish; worthless matter.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: Throw that shit out!
Get rid of that shit!
Bring that shit to the disposal.
gloss: Stuff, things.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.
Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away
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.
gloss: (the shit) The best of its kind.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
definite
slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: These grapes are the shit!
gloss: Genitalia, especially male.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: jerk one's shit
gloss: Nonsense; bullshit.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: Everything he says is a load of shit.
Enough of this shit!
Quit your shit!
What is this shit?
Aw, this shit again?
This guy is full of shit.
gloss: A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
usually
vulgar
examples: Her son has been a real shit to her.
I am a shit and a rotter.
Get the fuck out of here you little shit!
…I hate you back, you little shit!
(Admittedly, the fact that Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s vampiric treasury secretary, was a Fury Road executive producer complicates this whole parallel. I don’t know what to do with that. Even pieces of shit can, I suppose, be involved with great things from time to time.)
gloss: Anything.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: We don’t have shit to live on.
John can't sing for shit.
You ain't shit.
gloss: The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
usually
vulgar
examples: I don't give a shit.
gloss: A problem or difficult situation.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: I'm in some serious shit.
Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
gloss: A strong rebuke.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
gloss: Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: ‘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.’
gloss: Anything exceptional or remarkable.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
examples: I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?
gloss: Of poor quality; worthless.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: What a shit film that was!
gloss: Nasty; despicable.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: That was a shit thing to do to him.
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
literally
vulgar
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.
gloss: To excrete (something) through the anus.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
literally
transitive
vulgar
gloss: To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
literally
reflexive
transitive
vulgar
examples: I laughed so hard I shat myself.
gloss: To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
colloquial
slang
vulgar
examples: Of course, the farter does not dislike the smell of his own doing, but anybody else's fart, "Katey, bar the doors" and shouting, "Who shit?"
Ken Anker broke the silence and spoke through the bars. "Whoever is shitting their pants, please stop.” "Sorry," Sysco replied." It must be the food they serve here.”
'You should have seen her, Rosie. I think Gordy got such a fright, it was him who shat it.' Nikki chortled. 'I nearly lost it,' Julie said.
I hate that guy. He needs to lay off the cheese or something because he's always shitting farts so hard I'm surprised he doesn't blow out the back of his pants.
gloss: To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
vulgar
examples: Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
gloss: To annoy.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
colloquial
transitive
vulgar
examples: I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.
gloss: Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
Holy shit!
Oh, shit!
gloss: Used to show displeasure or surprise.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: "Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.
gloss: Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: All my comrades were laughing and clowning me, but shit, that didn't stop me from talking more shit.
Related words: shitter
beshit
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: курец
roman: kurec
lang: Catalan
word: (una) merda
lang: Czech
word: hovno
lang: Esperanto
word: fekaĵo
lang: Esperanto
word: feko
lang: Esperanto
word: merdo
lang: Estonian
word: pask
lang: Finnish
word: paska
lang: French
word: que dalle
lang: Galician
word: merda
lang: German
word: (einen) Scheiß
lang: Italian
word: cazzo
lang: Korean
word: 개털
roman: gaeteol
lang: Polish
word: gówno
lang: Portuguese
word: merda nenhuma
lang: Romanian
word: un căcat
lang: Romanian
word: o pulă
lang: Russian
word: ничего́
roman: ničevó
lang: Russian
word: ни фига́
roman: ni figá
lang: Russian
word: ни хуя́
roman: ni xujá
lang: Russian
word: ни хрена́
roman: ni xrená
lang: Slovak
word: hovno
lang: Slovak
word: trt
lang: Spanish
word: (una) mierda
lang: Swedish
word: skit