Beshite

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit. archaic, transitive

    "At last Skelton awaked, & felt the sheetes all wete; waked his wife, and sayd, What, hast thou beshitten the bed?"

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befoulassoilbeclartbedaubbedirtybedizen

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"At last Skelton awaked, & felt the sheetes all wete; waked his wife, and sayd, What, hast thou beshitten the bed?"

Etymology

From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskītan, equivalent to be- + shite. Cognate with Scots beschite, German bescheißen, Danish beskide (“to beshit”).

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