shit off

English

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Verb

shit off (third-person singular simple present shits off, present participle shitting off, simple past shat off or shit off, past participle shat off)

1. (British, Ireland, vulgar) Synonym of fuck off
   • 1966, William Sansom, Goodbye: A Novel‎^[1], page 162:

     'Oh, shit off!' she shouted.

   • 1984, Lynn Davies, Pupil Power: Deviance and Gender in School‎^[2], →ISBN, page 13:

     One girl was incensed at finding herself in the support unit one day because she was reported to have told a teacher to ' shit off ' when she claimed she had 'only' responded 'shut up.'

   • 2006, Keith Blackburn, Grandma's Garden‎^[3], →ISBN, page 55:

     Well, bloody well take 'em and shit off.

2. (Australian slang, vulgar, transitive) to annoy

   Old lady'd be shat off if she knew I was just around the corner.

   • 1998, Rod McLean, Eric and Ian Get a Life‎^[4], →ISBN, page 22:

     The three of them decided they would go camping at the Cotter reserve and, just to shit them off, Eric and I said we would go too.

   • 2005, Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe, page 252:

     There was no English on it. It was all Hebrew script and I remember it shat me off that I couldn't read it.

   • 2006, Tim Winton, Big World: The Turning: Stories, page 2:

     It's not hosing blood that shits me off – it's Angelus itself; I'm going nuts here.

Synonyms

• (both senses): piss off

Anagrams

• hits off, toffish