shitty

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ -y. Cognate with German Low German schittig (“dirty, shitty”), German Scheißig (“shitty”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪti/, [ˈʃɪɾi]

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ɪti

Adjective

shitty (comparative shittier, superlative shittiest)

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Very bad; unpleasant; miserable; insignificant.

   The television I bought there was so shitty that I will never shop there again.

   I'm feeling shitty today; I don't want to go out.

   • 1988 November, Byron Coley, “Underground”, in Spin‎^[1], page 101:

     It's a well-known fact that reading is about the shittiest thing you can do for your eyes.

   • 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:

     Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.

   • 2006, Everett True, Nirvana: The True Story‎^[2], published 2009:

     The difference is they usually have a shittier singer, and no originality.

   • 2011, Rik Leaf, Four Homeless Millionaires‎^[3], page 134:

     Halfway there we turned off the highway onto possibly the shittiest gravel road I have ever driven. In Canada, we would call it washboard; in Australia they call it corrugated, but you get the point.

2. (US, vulgar, slang, not comparable) Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
3. (UK, Australia, South East, regional, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) Annoyed.

   Don't get shitty with me!

4. (vulgar) Covered in faeces/feces; feculent.
5. (informal, vulgar) Of low quality or standard; inferior; not up to par, or failing one's expectations
   • 2005, Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep: A Novel, page 157:

     “She's a shitty teacher, but Ault was in a bind.” But she hadn't been a shitty teacher when she'd been hired. She'd never taught before. And who was Aspeth to decide she was shitty now? She was still inexperienced.

Synonyms

• (all senses): crappy (less intense), poopy (childish)
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (high): See Thesaurus:stoned
• (poor quality): shithouse (UK, AU, & NZ)

Derived terms

• better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick
• New York Shitty
• shittiness
• shitty-ass
• Shitty Kitty
• shitty stick
• unshitty

 

Related terms

• See shit

Translations

very bad, miserable

• Catalan: merdós (ca), de merda
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: aĉa (eo)
• Finnish: paska (fi)
• French: merdique (fr), dégueulasse (fr), de merde (fr)
• Galician: merdento
• German: beschissen (de), Scheiß- (de)
• Greek: σκατένιος (el) (skaténios)
• Italian: merdoso (it), di merda
• Japanese: くだらない (ja) (kudaranai)
• Korean: 좆같다 (jotgatda)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ræva (no)

• Persian: آشغال (fa) (âšğâl)
• Polish: gówniany (pl), chujowy (pl), zasrany (pl)
• Portuguese: de merda, merdoso (pt), escroto (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: de căcat
• Russian: сра́ный (ru) (srányj), хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), херо́вый (ru) (xeróvyj), говённый (ru) (govjónnyj), дерьмо́вый (ru) (derʹmóvyj)
• Scots: keechie
• Spanish: mierdoso, de mierda (es)
• Turkish: boktan (tr)
• Ukrainian: гівня́ний (hivnjányj), гімня́ний (himnjányj), лайно́вий (lajnóvyj), хуйо́вий (xujóvyj), сра́ний (srányj)

under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol — see drunk,‎ high

annoyed — see annoyed

covered in shit

• Finnish: paskainen (fi), paskassa
• Polish: zasrany (pl)
• Portuguese: cagado (pt)
• Turkish: boklu (tr)

of low quality or standard

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schijt- (nl), stront- (nl)
• Esperanto: aĉa (eo), merda (eo)
• Finnish: paska (fi)
• French: merdique (fr), - de merde (fr)
• Galician: de merda, merdento
• German: Scheiß- (de), beschissen (de)
• Greek: του κώλου (tou kólou), για πέταμα (gia pétama)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ræva (no)

• Polish: gówniany (pl), chujowy (pl)
• Portuguese: de merda
• Romanian: de căcat (ro)
• Russian: сра́ный (ru) (srányj), хуёвый (ru) (xujóvyj), херо́вый (ru) (xeróvyj), говённый (ru) (govjónnyj), дерьмо́вый (ru) (derʹmóvyj), говня́ный (ru) (govnjányj)
• Turkish: boktan (tr)

Anagrams

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