shite

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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: shīt, IPA: /ʃaɪt/, SAMPA: /SaIt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

Etymology 1

From the Middle English schīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze. More at shit.

Noun

shite (plural shites)

1. (vulgar) Shit, trash, rubbish.
2. (UK, pejorative) A foolish or deceitful person.

Related terms

• talk shite (vulgar, UK)

Adjective

shite (comparative more shite, superlative most shite)

1. (UK, vulgar) Bad, awful, shit.

Interjection

shite

1. (UK, vulgar) expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

Etymology 2

From Middle English schiten, from Old English scītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-Germanic *skītanan (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeid-, *skeit- (“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”).

Verb

shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past and past participle shited)

1. (UK, vulgar, chiefly Scotland) 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.

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• seith