English

Etymology

Old English noun scit(t)e, verb scitan, from a Common Germanic ancestor.

Pronunciation

• shĭt, /ʃɪt/, /SIr/

  Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

shit (uncountable except where indicated; plural shits)

All senses are vulgar slang

1. Excrement; faecal matter.

   The toilet bowl was smeared with shit.

2. (also load of shit) Rubbish; worthless matter.

   Move all of that shit out of your room!

3. Nonsense; bullshit.

   Everything he says is a load of shit.

4. (countable) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.

   Her son has been a real shit to her.

5. (with negative terms) Anything.

   His opinion is not worth shit = His opinion is not worth anything

   We don't have shit to live on = We don't have anything to live on

Synonyms

1. (excrement):

   (neutral terms): bowel movement , droppings , dung, excrement, faeces (British), feces (US), faecal matter (British), fecal matter (US)

   (euphemisms): jobbie, number two , poo or pooh , poop

   (vulgar slang terms): cack, crap, shite (Northern England, Scottish)

2. (rubbish): (all can be preceded with load of) crap, rubbish, trash (US)
3. (nonsense):

   (neutral terms): see nonsense

   (vulgar slang terms): bollocks (British), bullshit, crap, shite (Northern England, Scottish), wank (UK)

4. (nasty, despicable person):

   (used of men) bastard, pig

   (used of women) bitch, cow

5. (nothing):

   (neutral standard terms): nothing

   (neutral slang terms): nada, zilch, zip

   (vulgar slang terms): bugger all (British), fuck you , sod all (British)

Translations

excrement

rubbish

nonsense, bullshit

nasty, despicable person

nothing

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above. The numbering is unreliable.

• Portuguese: besteira f
• Romanian: rahat n (2, 3), porcărie f (2)
• Slovak: hovno n (5), nezmysel m (3)

Intransitive verb

to shit (past tense shit or shat, past participle shit, shat or [formerly] shitten )

1. (vulgar slang') To defecate.

Synonyms

• (standard terms): defecate, have a bowel movement , have a motion, move one's bowels
• (euphemistic terms): cack, do one's business , do a number two , go potty , have a poo or have a pooh, poo or pooh , poop, relieve oneself, see a man about a horse
• (non-vulgar slang terms): pinch a loaf
• (vulgar slang terms): crap, have a crap, have a shit

Translations

Transitive verb

to shit (past tense shit or shat, past participle shit, shat or [formerly] shitten)

1. (vulgar slang) To excrete (something) through the anus.

Synonyms

• (standard terms): excrete, pass
• (vulgar slang terms): crap

Translations

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) (for the transitive or intransitive verb) above. The numbering is unreliable.

• Catalan: cagar (1), cagar-se (2)
• Dutch: schijten
• Esperanto: feko , merdo
• German: scheißen
• Guarani: poti (1)
• Indonesian: buang air , buang air besar
• Interlingua: defecar (1)
• Japanese: 大便 をする (daiben wo suru)
• Latin: cacare (1)
• Portuguese: cagar (1); cagar-se , borrar-se (2)
• Polish: robić kupę (1), srać (2)
• Romanian: căca (1)
• Slovak: srať
• Spanish: cagar (1), cagarse (2)
• Swedish: skita

Verb

shit

1. (vulgar slang) Past tense of "to shit".

Translations

• Dutch: poepen
• French: chia (third-person past historic)

Verb

shit

1. (vulgar slang) Past participle of "to shit".

Translations

• Dutch: gescheten
• French: chié
• Italian: cagato , cacato

Interjection

shit (also oh, shit)

All senses are vulgar slang

1. Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc, often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before the outburst.

   Ex. Shit! I think that I forgot to put my sleeping_bag in my pack last night!

   Emphatic variants: holy shit, occasionally fucking shit, very rarely shit-fucking pig-fucker.

2. Also used as an expression of sympathy: Shit, I'm sorry to hear that.

Synonyms

• (expression of worry, failure):

  (euphemistic terms): shoot, shucks , sugar

  (vulgar slang terms): bugger, fuck, holy shit

• (expression of sympathy): (as for expression of worry, failure)

Translations

expression of worry, failure

expression of sympathy

Adjective

shit (comparative shitter, superlative shittest)

All senses are vulgar slang

1. Of poor quality; worthless.

   What a shit film that was!

2. Nasty; despicable.

   That was a shit thing to do to him.

Synonyms

1. (of poor quality):

   (vulgar slang terms): crap, crappy, shit-awful , shitty

2. (despicable):

   (standard terms): despicable, nasty, spiteful

   (vulgar slang terms): shitty

Translations

of poor quality

despicable

Derived terms

• apeshit
• birdshit
• bullshit
• chickenshit
• cowshit
• dogshit
• dumbshit
• full of shit
• give a shit
• have a shit
• holy shit
• horseshit
• shitfaced
• shit-for-brains
• shithead
• shitless
• shitter
• shit oneself
• shitty
• take a shit
• tough shit

Related terms

• shite

See also

• scatology , scatological