shit-breechn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈʃɪtbrɪtʃ/, U.S.

/ˈʃɪtˌbrɪtʃ/

Forms:

α. 1600s shit-brich, 1600s– shit-breech.

β. 1600s– shit-breeches, 1900s– shit-britches.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: shit v., breech n.

Etymology: < shit v. + breech n. In β. forms < shit v. + the plural of breech n.

coarse slang.

A. n.

A person who defecates in his breeches (frequently used as a term of abuse). Also: a small child. Also attributive.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

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land-rat1600

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tumbril1601

lobster1602

pilcher1602

windfucker?1602

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toad's-guts1634

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shagamuffin1642

shit-breech1648

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fat-face1740

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vagabond1842

shick-shack1847

soor1848

b1851

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molie1871

pig-dog1871

schweinhund1871

wind-sucker1880

fucker1893

cocksucker1894

wart1896

so-and-so1897

swine-hound1899

motherfucker1918

S.O.B.1918

twat1922

mong1926

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basket1936

cowson1936

zombie1936

meatball1937

shower1943

chickenshit1945

mugger1945

motherferyer1946

hooer1952

morpion1954

mother1955

mother-raper1959

louser1960

effer1961

salaud1962

gunk1964

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1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Schijt-broeck, a Shit-brich.

1648 (title) Reverend Alderman Atkins (the shit-breech) his speech, to Mr. Warner the venerable Mayor of London.

1658 Jrnls. House Commons 2 Feb. (1813) VII. 597/2 He had called Mr. Turgis a base stinking Fellow and a Shit-breech.

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 130 Nay even me dost [thou] so enflame Who (Shit-breech) thy own Mother am.

1680 J. Aubrey in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 383 He..did call the neoteriques s..t-breeches.

1825 Professional Anecd. I. 97 The new authors he [sc. William Harvey] called ‘shit-breeches’.

a1890 R. F. Burton tr. Il Pentamerone (1893) I. ii. vii. 198 What a shit-breeches thou art, I do believe thou wouldst be afraid of thy own shadow.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 414 Hey, shitbreeches, are you doing the hattrick?

1979 G. Davenport Da Vinci's Bicycle (1997) 156 Damn it for a bugger and a shit britches.

2001 A. Cunningham in P. Harman & S. Mitton Cambr. Sci. Minds ii. 33 For Harvey, Descartes was an unwanted ally—and probably a ‘shit-breech’.

B. adj. (attributive).

That is a shit-breech.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused

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mongrela1594

shake rotten1595

strummell-patch1600

thornbackly1605

toad-spotted1608

pissabed1643

shit-breeched1664

shit-breech1675

mole-catching1693

nine-eyed1694

poxya1758

cocksucking1872

bastard1877

motherfucking1890

son-of-a-bitching1902

so-and-so1929

mother-raping1932

zombie1937

chickenshit1940

pissy-arsed1940

bastarding1944

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 92 A Scurvy-shit-breech Lad.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xvii. 76 The shitbreech Fellows in our Countrey bepink and cut open their Breeches.

1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. Grimelin, a shit-Breech Boy, a young Boy, a Grammar School-boy.

2006 R. Rash World made Straight i. 36 It ain't like you're some shit-britches young'un. You're old enough to know better.

Derivatives

† shit-breeched adj. Obsolete rare

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