beshit

English

Alternative forms

• beshite

Etymology

From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”), equivalent to be- +‎ shit.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Verb

beshit (third-person singular simple present beshits, present participle beshitting, simple past and past participle beshit or beshat)

1. (transitive, possibly vulgar or offensive) To soil with excrement; shit all over.
   • 1714, Jonathan Swift, "Ode, to Music. On the Longitude":

     ...So Ditton and Whiston may both be bepissed on
     And Whiston and Ditton may both be beshit on.
     Sing Ditton beshit on, and Whiston bepissed on.
     Sing Ditton and Whiston, and Whiston and Ditton,
     Beshit and bepissed on, bepissed on and beshit on.

   • 2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side:

     Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead.

Coordinate terms

• bepiss

Anagrams

• Thisbe