shitten

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɪtən/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtən

Verb

shitten

  1. (archaic) past participle of shit
    • 1983, Carol Clark, The Vulgar Rabelais:
      Panurge has shitten himself for fear, and grabbed the cat thinking it was one of a horde of devils invading the ship.
    • 2017, Peter Wright, A Brief History of The Men’s Rights Movement: From 1856 to the present:
      That any member refusing to clean the child when it has shitten or bawed (as the term may be), he shall forfeit sixpence.
  2. (archaic) past participle of shite

Adjective

shitten (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Covered with or stained by excrement
  2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement; (by extension) disgusting; contemptible.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher
      Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady,
      And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.

Quotations

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