Shite
adj, intj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples""Oh. Hello, Rob." "Your new album's a pile o' shite, so it is!" "It's good to see you, too, mate. Do you want to come in for a cup of tea?""
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 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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