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Shite
Definitions
- 1 Bad; awful; shit. Ireland, UK, vulgar
"That was a shite film."
- 1 An expression of annoyance or dismay. Ireland, UK, vulgar
"Shite! I left my wallet at home."
- 1 Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually, vulgar
"That’s a load of shite."
- 2 obscene terms for feces wordnet
- 3 A foolish or deceitful person. Ireland, UK, derogatory, uncommon, uncountable, usually, vulgar
"He's a useless shite."
- 1 To defecate. Ireland, Scotland, UK, vulgar
"[…] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself."
Etymology
From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).
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