Word Study
shit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun shit has 6 senses
- shit(n = noun.substance) crap, dirt, poop, shite, turd - obscene terms for feces; Array is a kind of bm, dejection, faecal matter, faeces, fecal matter, feces, ordure, stool
- shit(n = noun.communication) bull, bullshit, crap, dogshit, horseshit, irish bull - obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" is a kind of buncombe, bunk, bunkum, guff, hogwash, rot
- shit(n = noun.quantity) diddley, diddly, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, squat - a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" is a kind of small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
- shit(n = noun.process) dump - a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" is a kind of defecation, laxation, shitting
- shit(n = noun.person) asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, sob, son of a bitch, whoreson - insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous; Array is a kind of disagreeable person, unpleasant person
- shit(n = noun.attribute) damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shucks, tinker's dam, tinker's damn - something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" is a kind of ineptitude, worthlessness
Derived forms verb shit2, verb shit1
Derived forms verb shit2, verb shit1
Derived form adjective shitty1
Verb shit has 2 senses
- shit(v = verb.communication) betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on - give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" is one way to inform
- shit(v = verb.body) ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit - have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" is one way to egest, eliminate, excrete, pass
Derived forms noun shit4, noun shit1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Derived forms noun shit4, noun shit1, noun shitter1, noun shitting1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shit, v., n., & int. coarse sl.
Usage
Usually considered a taboo word.
--v. (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit) intr. & tr. expel faeces from the body or cause (faeces etc.) to be expelled.
--n.
1 faeces.
2 an act of defecating.
3 a contemptible or worthless person or thing.
4 nonsense.
5 an intoxicating drug, esp. cannabis.
--int. an exclamation of disgust, anger, etc.
--v. (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit) intr. & tr. expel faeces from the body or cause (faeces etc.) to be expelled.
--n.
1 faeces.
2 an act of defecating.
3 a contemptible or worthless person or thing.
4 nonsense.
5 an intoxicating drug, esp. cannabis.
--int. an exclamation of disgust, anger, etc.
Etymology
OE scitan (unrecorded) f. Gmc
THESAURUS
shit
Amytal, Amytal pill, BM, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, SOB, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, asshole, bagatelle, baloney, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bastard, bauble, bean, bibelot, bilge, bit, black stuff, blah, blah-blah, bloody flux, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bop, bosh, bowel movement, brass farthing, buffalo chips, bugger, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, button, ca-ca, calmative, catharsis, cent, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, creep, cur, curio, defecate, defecation, dejection, depressant, depressor, diarrhea, dingleberry, dog, dolly, downer, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuate, evacuation, farce, fart, farthing, feather, feces, feculence, fig, flapdoodle, fleabite, flux, folderol, fribble, frippery, gas, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, goofball, guano, guff, gup, hair, halfpenny, hard stuff, heel, heroin, hill of beans, hogwash, hokum, hood, hooey, hooligan, hop, horse, hot air, hypnotic, jakes, jerk, jest, joke, junk, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knockout drops, laudanum, lientery, liquor, loose bowels, lotus, louse, malarkey, manure, meanie, meperidine, methadone, minikin, mockery, molehill, moonshine, morphia, morphine, mother, movement, narcotic, night soil, number two, opiate, opium, ordure, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, peppercorn, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, picayune, piffle, pill, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, poppycock, prick, purgation, purge, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, rap, rat, red, red cent, rot, row of pins, rubbish, runs, rush, scag, scat, scum, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sewage, sewerage, shithead, shitheel, shits, skunk, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, snake, snap, sneeshing, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, sou, stinkard, stinker, stool, straw, take a shit, tar, toad, tommyrot, toy, tranquilizer, trifle, trinket, tripe, triviality, trots, tuppence, turd, turistas, turps, two cents, twopence, void, voidance, whim-wham, white stuff, wind, yellow, yellow jacketROGET THESAURUS
shit
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.
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