shittify

English

Alternative forms

• shitify

Etymology

From shit +‎ -ify.

Verb

shittify (third-person singular simple present shittifies, present participle shittifying, simple past and past participle shittified)

1. (vulgar, nonstandard) To make shitty.

   Synonym: (rare) shitten

   Antonym: (nonstandard) goodify

   Coordinate term: shit up

   • 1994 February, Maximum Rocknroll, number 129, Berkeley, C.A.: Maximum Rocknroll, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117:

     The BACAT (Bay Area Center for Art and Technology) Collective, who put this out, gain an added dimension with their invitations to reader input and focus on the global networks and manipulations behind the shittifying of proletarian lifestyle (written by people who've actually left California and gone somewhere besides New York).

   • 2002 February 27, Zackman, “XPox smelling like Dreamcast ...”, in alt.games.video.xbox‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Just because the PS2 takes great PC games and shittifies them into half-assed ports like Half-Life and Star Trek Voyager and the rest of that awful PS2PC dreck doesn't mean the same has to apply to the Xbox's one and only PC port. Don't cry.

   • 2011 March 28, Gheerax IV, “Hollywood Makeover for YouTube”, in rec.arts.tv‎^[2] (Usenet):

     They will use whatever leverage they have in whatever deal gets made to force the technology company to shittify the technology to protect their traditional business models.

   • 2014, Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray: A Novel, Ashford, C.T.: Elephant Rock Books, →ISBN, page 54:

     This is what Rockhead doesn't get: you don't have to shittify your music to make people listen to it. If it's good, people will listen. Period.

Related terms

• enshittify
• shittification
• shittiness