shite
See also: Shiite
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: shīt, IPA(key): /ʃaɪt/
- Rhymes: -aɪt
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Etymology 1
From the Middle English scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze. More at shit.
Noun
shite (plural shites)
Derived terms
Adjective
Interjection
shite
Etymology 2
From Middle English schiten, from Old English scītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).
Verb
shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past shited or shit or shat, past participle shited or shitten)
- (Britain, chiefly Scotland, Ireland, vulgar) To defecate.
- 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies (page 38)
- […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.
- 2007, Talonie Starr, Growth Manifesto (page 173)
- He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.
- 2011, Douglas Bruster, Eric Rasmussen, Everyman and Mankind:
- I have eaten a dishful of curds,
And I have shitten your mouth full of turds.
- 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies (page 38)
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