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▪ I. shit, shite, n. Not now in decent use.|ʃɪt, ʃaɪt|
Forms: 1 scitte, 3 schit, 4 schyt, 6 Sc. schit, s(c)heitt(e, 6– shit, shite.
[f. root of next.
There are prob. two or three different formations: OE. *scite dung (= MLG. schite), scitte diarrhœa; also mod.E. dial. shite f. the vb. (cf. ON. skît-r, MLG. schît). The form shite now chiefly occurs as an occasional jocular or quasi-euphemistic variant.]
1. a. Excrement from the bowels, dung.
αa1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 733 Fond flytter, shit shytter. 1961F. King Custom House xix. 275 Leave that shit alone! Filthy dog. 1967P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint (1969) 47 Trying to clear my feet of my undershorts before anybody can peek inside, where..I always discover in the bottommost seam a pale and wispy brushstroke of my shit. 1973E. Jong Fear of Flying (1974) ii. 25 In general the toilets run swift here and the shit disappears long before you can leap up and turn around to admire it. 1980K. J. Dover Greeks ii. 38 We might pick on his revelation of what Greek warfare was like... Blood and shit and pus are the same..in all ages.
βa1732Ld. Binning Jolly Hawk viii. in North Country Garland (1824) 52 His s..te it stinks o' ling!
b. A contemptuous epithet applied to a person.
1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 496 [Thou art] A schit, but wit. a1605Montgomerie Flyting w. Polwart 85 Wanshapen shit. Ibid. 365. 1886 W. Somerset Word-bk., Shit, a term of contempt. (Very com.) He's a regular shit. Applied to men only. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1921D. H. Lawrence Let. 10 Nov. (1962) II. 673 They are both such abject shits it is a pity they can't be flushed down a sewer. 1922E. M. Forster Let. 27 Sept. in P. N. Furbank E. M. Forster (1978) II. v. 106, I think that most Indians, like most English people, are shits. 1926C. Connolly Let. 3 Aug. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 157 Her son is a complete little shit though..witty and humorous beyond his years. 1941J. Reith Diary 20 Oct. (1975) v. 281 Beaverbrook—to no one is the vulgar designation shit more appropriately applied—telephoned about park railings. 1956I. Murdoch Flight from Enchanter xii. 176 ‘You beastly contemptible shit of a crook,’ said Hunter. 1968Observer 29 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 25/3 We hate the staff here. Keep away from them as much as possible. The shits. 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 67 Is that little shit still shooting his mouth off in there? 1976J. I. M. Stewart Young Patullo viii. 165 She was a third-class harlot who made up for it by being a first-class shit. 1978J. Irving World according to Garp xii. 217 Oh, I never knew what shits men were until I became a woman.
c. In negative contexts: Anything. Phr. not to give a shit: not to care at all.
1922Joyce Ulysses ii. 587 He's a whitearsed bugger. I don't give a shit for him. 1969W. Labov in J. E. Alatis Teaching Standard Eng. to Speakers of Other Languages (1970) 15 The average whitey out here got everything, you dig? And the nigger ain't got shit, y'know. 1970Landfall (N.Z.) Sept. 218 Nobody gives a shit for nobody. 1973D. Barnes See Woman (1974) i. 19 Don't tell them shit. The skipper is on his way, and he'll decide what to tell them. 1978K. Amis Jake's Thing iii. 30 An interviewer..being very rude to a politician..and the politician not giving a shit.
β1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 137 Do you think Churchill gives a shite for the Fourteenth Army?
d. transf. Rubbish, trash.
1930A. Huxley Let. 7 Jan. (1969) 326 In every case something precious and lovely had been taken away and replaced by a mound of shit. 1957I. Cross God Boy (1958) xxii. 192 They just tell me she's in a hospital and that God knows best and all that shit. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 8 Listen, F., don't give me any of your mystical shit. 1976M. Spark Takeover x. 149 Even if it's shit it gets people thinking about religion. 1977Rolling Stone 5 May 6/2, I enjoyed Simmons' logic that Shakespeare is ‘shit’ simply because he can't understand it.
β1976New Musical Express 17 Apr. 11/4 If you have to spend a lot of time with people who are interested in their chess boards and little card games and shite like that, it can drive you nuts.
e. fig. Misfortune, unpleasantness. Esp. in phr. to be in the shit: to be in trouble or difficulty.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 758/2 sh**, in the, in trouble. 1958S. Beckett Malone Dies 98 In any case, here I am back in the shit. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 162 We were all in the shit together and it was madness to try and escape it. 1977Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 55/5, I feel really lucky that I've had the opportunity to go through some of the heartaches and shit we've been through the past year.
f. An intoxicating or euphoriant drug, spec. cannabis, heroin, or marijuana.
1950L. Rivers in Neurotica Autumn 45 Senor! You want some shit? How much? Senor, I have great stuff. 1960J. Gelber Connection ii. 88 At that time shit was relatively scarce and I had to go out of the city to score. 1972Daily Tel. 3 Apr. 8 Acid (LSD) and ‘shit’ (cannabis), were on open sale, and..a notice was pinned to a tent stating: ‘Anybody with some black shit for sale, ask for Irish Mick.’ 1980S. Wilson Dealer's War iii. ix. 229 ‘Hope it's good shit,’ I whispered as he swabbed my arm.
g. In phrases up shit creek: in an unpleasant situation or awkward predicament (cf. up the creek s.v. creek n.1 2 c); shit out of luck: (see quot. 1942); (when) the shit flies or hits the fan: alluding to a moment of crisis or its disastrous consequences; to beat, kick, or knock the shit out of (someone): to thrash or beat severely; to get one's shit together (U.S.): to collect oneself, to manage one's affairs.
1937J. Dos Passos U.S.A. i. 70 We're up shit creek now for fair. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §219/10 Unlucky..shit out of luck, (all) washed up. 1966P. O'Donnell Sabre-Tooth iv. 62 We're all going to be there, where the shit's flying. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 122 Let's beat the shit out of him. 1967Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1355/2 Wait till the major hears that! Then the shit'll hit the fan! 1968A. Diment Bang bang Birds ix. 172 Should the shit hit the fan and the Swedes come over stroppy, he could say..‘weren't nothing to do with us, son!’ 1969Win 15 May 31/2 We sense the government and its agents daily becoming more ineffective as we get our own shit together. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 260 The Japs..were meek and respectful... The shit had been knocked out of them. 1973Black World June 62 He sure didn't want a family..to support..just when he was ‘..gettin' my shit together to finish school’. 1977H. Fast Immigrants iii. 171 It's been too quiet. Tomorrow, the shit hits the fan. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die i. 10, I will show you the artist getting the shit kicked out of him for the sake of his art. Ibid. xl. 450 So you see, my dear, you're shit out of luck. 1981Private Eye 31 July 11/2 If they'd followed her this far up shit creek it's a long way to walk back.
†2.
a. Diarrhœa, esp. in cattle. Obs.
Cf. the mod. dial. shoot with the same meaning (but not etymologically connected).
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 226 Wiþ þon þe men mete untela melte & ᵹecirre on yfele wætan & scittan. a1118Florence of Worcester Chron. ex Chronicis an. 987 (Thorpe 1848) 148 Lues animalium, quæ Anglice Scitta vocatur, Latine autem fluxus interaneorum dici potest. [Copied by Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 50 (with spelling shitta). Hence the following quot.] 1387Trevisa ibid. 51 And bestes [had] þe schyt.
b. the shits, diarrhœa (in persons). Also fig.
1947Amer. Speech XXII. 305 I'd rather die with the screaming shits. 1967Coast to Coast 1965–6 200 Women have always given me the shits. 1977Zigzag Mar. 8/1 ‘I've had the shits,’ he cried. ‘You want to avoid the food.’
3. a. Comb.: In terms of abuse, as shit-ass, shit-bag, shit-breeches, shit-face, shit-head, shit-heel, shit-pot; † shit-word, abuse; b. shit-hole (see quot. 1937); usu. fig.; shit-hot a. (see quot. 1961); also used loosely as a term of approbation; shit-house a privy; also in gen. use as a term of disgust or contempt (freq. attrib.); shit-kicker U.S., a rustic; shit-list (see quots. 1942, 1945); shit-scared a., extremely frightened; shitwork, (esp. in the language of feminists) work considered to be menial or routine, esp. housework.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §396 Terms of disparagement..shit-ass. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 165 He then cried out, ‘Oh what a hypocrite shitass I am to ask a Jew ofay for advice how to express my soul work.’
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 758/2 Sh**-bag, the belly; in pl., the guts. 1961Ibid. Suppl. II. 1269/1 Shit-bag,..an unpleasant person. 1968Bethell & Burg tr. Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward i. viii. 121 All he could see was this shitbag wolfing a chicken bone. 1973Shit-bag [see mental a.1 1 c].
1922Joyce Ulysses 428 Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hattrick? 1937W. L. G. Cowan Loud Report ii. 97 ‘Hallo, s― face.’ 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 115 ‘Why,’ I wondered, ‘did old shitface come round? What was he after?’
1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1269/2 Shit-head, an objectionable person. 1971J. Michener in Reader's Digest Apr. 240 Again the girls were particularly abusive, taunting the guards, calling them ‘shit-heads’, ‘half-ass pigs’. 1979P. Niesewand Member of Club viii. 56 You lying shithead!
1935J. Hargan Gloss. Prison Lang. 7 Shitheel, an inmate who considers himself superior to all the others. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath 212 And Mae, when she is alone with Al, has a name for them. She calls them shit⁓heels. 1977H. Fast Immigrants vi. 359 You could have sent a registered letter, or that little shitheel of an errand boy, Clancy?
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 758/2 Sh**-hole, the rectum. 1969A. Cornelisen Torregreca v. 176, I made up my mind early I wasn't going to..spend my life..in one of those shit-holes. 1977Zigzag June 28/3 John went to a Catholic school in Caledonian Road—‘a right shit-hole’.
1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1269/2 Shit-hot, unpleasantly enthusiastic,..very skilful, cunning, knowledgeable. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 199 They've elected a new guy... I don't know anything about him. Except that he's shit-hot. 1976Sounds 11 Dec. 29/2 Chuck Leavell's pretty damn good all the time, and the rhythm section's still shit-hot.
1795in G. MacGregor Coll. Writings of Graham (1883) II. 247 For honour of the Scots, we have his [Wallace's] effigy in the shite-houses to this very day. 1922Joyce Ulysses 335 Cute as a shithouse rat. 1972G. Morley Jockey rides Honest Race 173 You're probably right..but I still feel shithouse about it. 1973J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 46 Have you explained all this shithouse philosophy to the rate-payers? 1976P. Cave High flying Birds ii. 19 ‘Nothing wrong with it—safe as a brick-built shithouse,’ I assured her. 1977Zigzag Aug. 5/2 If you're banned in town A and then banned in town B, well then town C has just got to ban you or it's, ‘well what kind of shithouse place are you running there, councillor?’
1966Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 29 The commonplace generic term for any rustic, shit kicker. 1969L. Michaels Going Places 23, I was a city boy. No innocent shitkicker from Jersey. 1969Rolling Stone 28 June 14/1 Saturday nights the avid shitkicker can whoop it up.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §336/2 Blacklist,..shit or stink list. 1945Amer. Speech XX. 263 In the vulgar talk of the barracks, soldiers uninhibitedly use the phrase shit list, for a list of men whom one dislikes and is anxious to see embarrassed or inconvenienced. 1965Liberator Aug. 23/1 Sweet Mac is on my shit list. 1970R. D. Abrahams Positively Black i. 8 Moynihan had made it onto the black shit-list in spite of his obvious sympathies.
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 758/2 Sh**-pot, a thorough or worthless humbug (person); a sneak. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 132 Lesser, don't think you so hot, You got the look of a shit-pot.
1958P. Scott Mark of Warrior 169 I'm shit-scared stuck up there with all my men gone. 1977Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 12/4 Stewart was ‘shit scared’ about opening night.
a1250Owl & Night. 286 Ȝif ich mid chauling..Hom schende & mid fule worde So herdes doþ oþer mid schit worde.
1968No More Fun & Games Oct. 43 Along with their equal integrated position they can equally misuse their less political sophisticated sisters to do their shitwork. 1972Guardian 30 Mar. 13/3 They call it..‘shit work’ and they equate it with emptying dustbins and crawling on your belly in a coal mine... The resentment against housework came up like a great surging wave. 1980D. Spender Man Made Lang. i. 48 Because of its parallels with housework, Fishman argues that women do the shitwork in conversation.
c. attrib. or as adj.
1968H. Davies Beatles ix. 66, I think it [sc. jazz] is shit music, even more stupid than rock and roll. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 104 He sat on the bed with a shit smile on his mouth. 1973Boyd & Parkes Dark Number v. 55 ‘Look, so you've got a crippled leg.’.. He winced at that and turned away. ‘That was a shit thing to say.’
Add:[2.] c. (As a count-noun.) An act of defecation.
1928in A. W. Read Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western N. Amer. (1935) 75 Roses are red Violets are blue I took a shit & so did you. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1113/2 Gone for a shit. 1978K. Amis Jake's Thing v. 52 She monitored his shits, managing to be on reconnaissance patrol past the lavatory door or standing patrol in sight of it whenever he went in and out. 1986Guardian 29 Mar. 21/7 If all those millions of people in Glasgow would just come out here at the weekend and each of them would pick up a stone and put it in his pocket and each of them would have a shit, I should have the best farm in the whole of Scotland.
▸ Things, stuff (in the broadest sense), esp. personal belongings. Freq. in —— and shit, ‘—— and similar stuff’, ‘—— etc.’; also as an intensifier.
1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 48 ‘We'll throw out all the other contributors and we'll fill it with our own shit—that's what!’ ‘Yeah, but what kind of shit?’ ‘Any kind.’ 1966R. Stone Hall of Mirrors 338 He had a whole lot of writings and shit. 1974S. Delany Dhalgren v. 433 ‘I keep all my shit up here’, Denny explained... By his left hand was an army compass, a green shirt (with gold trim)..a dagger whose handle was ball-in-claw, and a game case. 1986D. A. Dye Platoon (1987) vi. 109 Look at them papers... That looks like maps and shit. 1989New Q. (Canada) Spring 18 ‘What about..oregano?’ ‘Yeah, yeah, all that shit. You stick all that shit in there.’ 1995Source Feb. 52/2 When I say ‘G’, I don't mean a brother who's out there killin' up niggas doin' drive-bys and shit. 2001Village Voice (N.Y.) 4 Dec. 119/2 They interviewed all these old dudes drooling over their great adrenaline-filled days in Vietnam, where they hung from helicopters and got all sneaky and shit.
▸ orig. U.S.to have shit for brains and variants: to be extremely stupid or foolish. Cf. shit-for-brains adj. and n. at Additions.
1960D. MacCuish Do not go Gentle 138 Larko's got shit for brains. 1971L. Bangs in G. Marcus Psychotic Reactions (1987) 17 If somebody did something stupid, we used to say, ‘Whattaya got, shit for brains?’ 1991Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 37 Shit for brains is what they got, while I got me a quiet house Mondays. 1995N. Hornby High Fidelity (1996) xxxiii. 247 I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking.., I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains. 1998Viz June–July 35/1 Fucking hell, I've got shit for brains, me. I don't even know if I'm drowning or on dry land or what!
▸ shit-for-brains adj. and n. orig. U.S. (a) adj. (attrib.) stupid, foolish; (b) n. an extremely stupid or foolish person; freq. used as a form of address; cf. to have shit for brains at Additions.
1959D. Anthony Multitude of Men 325, I should care if some sloppy shit-for-brains bricklayer don't know his ass from his elbow? 1971W. Mares Marine Machine 26 Get over here, shitforbrains! 1981T. C. Boyle Patience in Antæus Summer 63 Gleg's as good as any, by my way of thinkin', even if he be a bit of a shit-for-brains. 1990Viz Oct. 47/1, I may be thick, but I'm not a total shit for brains! I'm sure there's something useful I can do. 1995Spy (N.Y.) May–June 12/3 We're obviously doing the most wonderful, candy-ass, fearless, suck-up, entertaining and all-around shit-for-brains job we can possibly do. 2001R. Russo Empire Falls iv. xxiv. 377 He'd recently seen a story on TV about some shit-for-brains woman in California who took in wounded animals..and let them limp and hop around her ranch.
▸ slang (orig. U.S.). shit happens: bad things are bound to happen, unpleasant situations are unavoidable. Also (esp. as a rejoinder) expressing a resigned attitude to any state of affairs or course of events: these things happen, such is life.
1983UNC-CH Campus Slang (Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill) (typescript) Spring 5 Shitang/that shit happens, expressions of disgust. 1987Re: This isn't for Trash in sci.philosophy.tech (Usenet newsgroup) 26 May (signature of posting), Shit happens. 1988C. Hammerschlag Dancing Healers vii. 92 There was no way to explain why the accident had occurred... As we had often said to one another, ‘shit happens’. 1992New Statesman & Society (BNC) 10 Apr. Perhaps that's as it should be, because who can know for sure? The only thing we know for sure is that shit happens. 1997Independent (Electronic ed.) 9 Aug. The general attitude is that it is simply their lot—shit happens.
▪ II. shit, shite, v. Not now in decent use.|ʃɪt, ʃaɪt|
Forms: 4 schite, schete, 5 schyte, -yyte, 4–6 shyte, 6 shyt, 4– shite, 7– shit; pa. tense 4 schoot, schote, shyt, 5 shote, 7— shit, shat, shitted, 9– shit; pa. pple. 1 -sciten, 4 i-schete, schetun, 4–8 shitten, 9– shat, shit.
[The form shite represents OE. *scítan, pa. tense *scát, pa. pple. -sciten (in be-sciten), corresponding to OFris. *skîta (NFris. skĭtj, pa. tense skäd, pa. pple. skedden), MLG. schîten, Du. schijten, OHG. scîȥan (MHG. schîȥan, mod.G. scheissen), ON. skíta (MSw. skîta, Da. skide), f. OTeut. root *skī̆t-. The now more common form shit is influenced by the pa. pple. or the related n.]
1. intr. To void excrement.
c1308in Rel. Ant. II. 176 Hail be ȝe, skinners, with ȝure drenche kive,..Whan that hit thonnerith, ȝe mote ther in schite. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) IV. 329 Þey wolde..make hem a pitte..whan þey wolde schite..; and whanne þey hadde i-schete þey wolde fille þe pitte aȝen. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 12 If he may not schite oones a day, helpe him þerto..with clisterie. c1425Castle Persev. 1969 in Macro Plays 136 Þei schul schytyn for fere. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. xv, The wulf..shote thryes by the waye for the grete fere that he had. 1538Bale Three Laws iv. E v b, Whan ye haue hym in hys graue, Stampe hym downe tyll he shyte. 1677Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Instalment Wks. 1705 II. 88 You're such a scurvy..Knight, That when you speak a Man wou'd swear you S―te. c1720Gibson Farrier's Guide ii. xlvii. (1738) 159, I have known a hide⁓bound Horse shit often, and his excrement soft. c1784W. Blake Island in Moon in Compl. Writings (1966) 46 ‘The trumpeter shit in his hat,’ said the Epicurean. 1787Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xix, Just sh― in a kail-blade, and send it. 1929C. Connolly Let. Nov. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 329 It [sc. a kinkajou]..had a genius for sitting where it shat. 1952M. Lowry Let. 24 Nov. (1967) 323 A seagull has shat on the roof of the convent. 1975R. Hoban Turtle Diary xlix. 199 Their dogs shitted on the paths. 1976Listener 22 Jan. 92/1 The titillation of finally finding out that great men and women spat and shat and had piles. 1979Guardian Weekly 4 Nov. 21/2 Shat in his pants with fear.
2. trans. To void as excrement. lit. and fig.
13..K. Alis. 5670 The addres shiteth preciouse stones. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 152 [He] sched out his bowels and his lyf wiþ þe dritt þat he schoot [v.r. schote]. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 264 Þe wolf shiteþ woolle:..lupus lanam cacat. c1450Mankind 561 in Macro Plays 21 Tityuillus. Mankynde was besy in hys prayere..; I haue sent hym forth to schyte lesynges. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop x. xv, I dyde shyte thre grete toordes. 1527L. Andrew Brunswyke's Distill. Waters C iv b, An ounce for them that spetteth blode, pysseth blode, or shyteth blode. 1659N. R. Prov., Eng. Fr. etc. 68 It is not all butter that the cow shites. 1691Mrs. D'Anvers Academia 5 But that the Devil shites Disasters. c1730Round abt. Coal-Fire 17 He was taken with a sharp griping Pain, which made him sh—t Pins and Needles as he thought. 1978T. L. Smith Money War (1979) i. 149 The planes..had shit a neat stream of Day-Glo orange bricks.
3. a. To defile with excrement. Esp. in phr. to shit oneself: (a) to defile oneself with excrement; (b) fig., to be afraid.
1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Shit your breetches, common redshank; Totanus calidris. So called from the cry it makes. 1914Ld. Fisher Let. 14 Aug. in M. Gilbert Winston S. Churchill (1972) III. Compan. i. 35 The French Admiral shot himself. The English Admiral ‘shit’ himself. 1968A. Diment Bang Bang Birds iv. 51 You can shit yourself. I'm not working for you. 1977Spare Rib May 8/3, I was shitting myself before I came, looking for all kinds of excuses. 1980Sunday Times 27 Apr. 42/3, I can easily arrange not to be diverted by knowing when a sorry old man shat himself.
b. In slang phrases to shit (someone): to tease or attempt to deceive; to shit a brick: (see quot. 1961); also as int.
1934H. Miller Tropic of Cancer 61 Carl looks at me in despair. ‘Is he shitting me, that bastard?’ 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1269/1 Shit, esp. be shitting, bricks, to be really worried,..to be thoroughly frightened. 1965M. Shadbolt Among Cinders x. 83 ‘A queer thing. Something psychological.’ ‘Shit a brick,’ he said. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 187 You're shitting me, Jock! You never did it! 1976H. Ferguson Confessions Long Distance Acid Head 48 By the time I got back to the hospital they were all shitting bricks. 1978J. Krantz Scruples vii. 216 ‘Prince will shit a brick,’ Billy said with a giggle. 1979C. Kilian Icequake iii. 47 Didja see the wave comin' across the Shelf?.. There was a wave. I'm not shittin' you.
4. Comb.: shit-abed, † (a) a term of abuse; (b) dial. a name for the dandelion (E.D.D.); shit-breech, an epithet of abuse applied to a person, also attrib.; hence shit-breeched adj.; shit-fire, a contemptuous epithet applied to a hot-tempered person; † shite-rags, -sticks (see quot. 1659); † shit-sack, an opprobrious name applied to nonconformists (see shick-shack).
1690Pagan Prince x. 29 But the Arragonian Bakers..also gave them ill Language, calling them Tooth-Gapers, Sherks, *Shittabeds, Slubber-degullions, [etc.].
1648Hexham ii, Een Schijt-broeck, a *Shit-brich. 1675Cotton Scoffer Scoft 92 A Scurvy shit-breech Lad. Ibid. 130 Nay even me dost [thou] so enflame Who (Shit-breech) thy own Mother am. 1680Aubrey in Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 383 He..did call the neoteriques s..t-breeches.
1664Cotton Scarron. i. 97 But with a Bow the *Shit-breech'd elfe [Cupid] Would shoot like Robin-Hood himself.
1598Florio, Cacafuoco, a hot violent fellow, a *shite-fire. 1659Torriano, Caca-fuoco, a shite-fire, by Met. a hot-spur, a rash-headed fellow. 1704E. Ward Helter Skelter 7, I say, Sir, you're a meer Shite-fire.
1598Florio, Cacastraccie, a *shite-rags, an idle, lazie, loobie fellow. 1659Torriano, Caca-sodo, Caca-stecchi, Caca-stracci [etc.],..a shite-sticks, a shite-rags, that is to say, a miserable pinch-pennie.
1769J. Granger Biog. Hist. Eng. Index, *Sh―t Sacks; the occasion of that appellation. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., S―t sack, a dastardly fellow.
1598Florio, Cacastecchi, a hard chuffe, a *shite-sticks.
Hence ˈshitting, shiting vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.; ˈshitter, shiter, (a) one who, or that which, shits; (b) a privy; a lavatory pan.
1386Will R. Huberd (Somerset Ho.), Meliorem patellam meam vocatum schetyngpanne. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxix. (1495) 288 That the matere..may be ladde oute..by spewing other by shitynge, other by swete. c1440Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schytynge, stercorizacio. Schyytynge, or kukkynge vesselle,..lassarium. a1585[see shit n. 1]. 1648Hexham ii, Een Schijter,..a Shiter. 1663Wood Life June (O.H.S.) I. 477 Sir Charles Sedley being fined 500 li. he made answer, that he thought he was the first man that paid for shiting. a1704T. Brown Lett. fr. Dead ii. (1707) 68 Knocking a shiting Porter down..backwards into his own Surreverence. 1952Amer. Speech XXXIII. 270 Here I bring together all the current terms [for ‘horse’]. The most common are pony, cayuse, shitter, and scate. 1967M. Shulman Kill 3 ii. iv. 77 You bastard! You shitting little bastard! 1969R. Fernandez in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 380 Markings on a shitter wall. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 168 The blokes say Calcutta's got more whore-houses than it has shitters. 1971Black Scholar Sept. 46/2 He lit a square and sat down on the shitter and tried to collect his thoughts. 1980L. Cooper Desirable Residence xlii. 160 That shitting girl looks at me as if I was dirt.
▪ III. shit, int.|ʃɪt|
Also shee-y-it, she-it (emphatic forms), shite.
[f. the n. and vb.]
1. A coarse exclamation of annoyance or disgust.
1920Joyce Let. 3 Jan. (1957) I. 134 O shite and onions! When is this bloody state of affairs going to end? 1922E. E. Cummings Enormous Room xi. 219 My father is dead! Shit! Oh, well. The war is over. Good. 1925D. H. Lawrence Let. 7 Nov. (1962) II. 865 Why doesn't somebody finally and loudly say Shit! to it all! 1959‘E. McBain’ 87th Precinct xix. 138 ‘When I came back, he was gone.’ ‘Shit,’ Willis said. 1969‘J. Morris’ Fever Grass xvii. 150 ‘Shit!’ Scully said disgustedly. ‘Oh, shee-y-it!’ 1977Time 14 Nov. 66/3 Aw, she-it, as the street kids say.
2. In trivial use.
1937J. Dos Passos U.S.A. i. 73 Shit, let's try pick 'em up. 1969Private Eye 23 May 14 Shit! What a lovely scene. 1976P. Cave High flying Birds iii. 42 ‘Aw, shit. It was nothing,’ she muttered, writing the matter off casually.
▪ IV. shit
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