| 单词 | to shit oneself |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto shit oneself a. transitive. To defile with excrement. Esp. in reflexive phrase to shit oneself: (a) to defile oneself with excrement (b) figurative to be afraid.With sense 3a(b) cf. quot. a1450 at sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > dirty or soil with specific kinds of dirt [verb (reflexive)] > dirty with excrement shitc1475 beray1575 the mind > emotion > fear > be afraid [verb (reflexive)] dreadc1175 agastc1300 ofdreadc1300 doubtc1330 fear1393 shitc1813 c1475 Mankind (1969) l. 132 (MED) I haue schetun yowr mowth full of turdys. a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) ix. 14 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 172 Lik laidill, husche paidill, schyt þe saidill, þowis be drest. 1799 P. Spindleshanks Battle Two Taylors 4 A man..Possess'd a Cow that Us'd to eat, And consequently sh— the street. c1813 Wellington's Laurels 2 When the British came after so hot, The French s--t their breeches with quaking. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Shit your breetches, common redshank; Totanus calidris. So called from the cry it makes. c1890 My Secret Life II. xxi. 303 Passing her I rushed out towards the privy saying, as if ready to shit myself, ‘What a time you have been there. I thought you were going to stay there all day.’ 1893 R. F. Burton tr. G. Basile Il Pentamerone I. i. v. 54 Dost thou shit thyself in thy small-clothes with fear? 1914 Ld. 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. 1934 S. Spender Vienna i. 15 Their devout stone hair shitted by birds. 1968 A. Diment Bang Bang Birds iv. 51 You can shit yourself. I'm not working for you. 1977 Spare Rib May 8/3 I was shitting myself before I came, looking for all kinds of excuses. 1980 Sunday Times 27 Apr. 42/3 I can easily arrange not to be diverted by knowing when a sorry old man shat himself. 1996 P. Attanasio Donnie Brasco (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 44 Christ. I think I shit my pants. 1999 C. Aherne et al. Royle Family Scripts: Series 2 (2000) Episode 2. 43 I know exactly what she'd do in a bloody crash—she'd shit herself, the same as the rest of us. < as lemmas |
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