shit
Meaning
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- (colloquial) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- (colloquial) The act of shitting.
- (colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
- (colloquial) Stuff, things.
- (colloquial) (the shit) The best of its kind.
- (colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
- (colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (colloquial) (in negations) Anything.
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- (colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
- (colloquial) A strong rebuke.
- (colloquial) Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- (slang) Anything exceptional or remarkable.
Synonyms
take a crap
ca-ca
diddley
diddly-shit
diddlyshit
Irish bull
move one’s bowels
tinker’s dam
act of defecating
denounce
tinker’s damn
Blast
sonofobitch
crumb bum
smacko
crum-bum
ass maggot
sona'bitch'u
ratink
have crap
go number 2
crum
low life
go to stool
dash it
ramble on
scum bag
do a crap
Damn it
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ʃɪt/
Etymology
From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”). Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.
Cognate with Dutch
schijt
Cognate with German
Scheiße
Cognate with Western Frisian
skite
Cognate with Dutch
schijten
Cognate with German
scheißen
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