shit:
1. An/the act of defecation . See defecation for synonyms.Etymology: From the Old English scite and the Middle Low German schite meaning dung. The spelling shite , rarely used today, appeared in the 19 th century.
2. Excrement; feces.
Synonyms: crap ; excreta; ordure; night-soil ; stool.
3. Shit! An exclamation of anger, disgust, irritation, surprise, disbelief.
Quote: Ramon and Norma McPhee (Marsha Mason) in Max Dugan Returns (1983):
-- Ramon, a student: ' Shit!!! '
-- Norma, an English teacher : ' This is English, Ramon. Save that expression for biology .'
4. Used extensively for composing compund insults: Shit head / Shit-brain / Shit-breath / Shit-eater / Shit face / Shit-for-brains / Shit-kicker / Piece-of-shit / Shit-for-brains... / Pile of shit / Sac of shit .
-- ' Chickenshit ' From Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
-- ' Dog shit ' From Stand by Me (1986) Double-Dee = dumb-as-dog-shit . Renaissance Man (1994)
-- ' Useless scum-lapping shitbag ' From Dragnet (1987)
-- ' Little shit ' From Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
-- ' Dipshit ' From The Fisher King (1991)
-- ' Shit-nosed bastard ' From City Slickers (1991)
-- ' Talking pile of pig shit ' From A League of Their Own (1992)
-- ' Tub-of-shit ' From The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
-- ' Monumental shit ' From Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
-- ' Two-bit redneck shit-kicker ' From Wag the Dog (1999)
See Also: abort, alley apple, ass-hole, asshole, base trio, the, Bastille, big hit, big shot, big wheel, bletherskate, brown handkerchief, brown word, BTSOOM, clart, coprophagia, coprophagy, crap, culls, defecation, diddly-shit, doo-doo, Edgar Britt, four-letter word, fucked up and far from home, Jim Britts, Jimmys, The, KS, pecker, S-word, S.O.S., shit, shit-palm, shithouse, shouse, stir shit, stir someone's shit, tar brush, tom tits, tom-tit, tomtit, Vagina Littlefinger, wet patch, wet spot
Quotes Containing shit:
A four-letter-word is a swear word of sexual or scatological nature. Examples: arse ; cock , crap , cunt , fart , fuck , piss , quim , shit , turd , twat . The excretory words, crap , shit and turd are sometimes referred to as the base trio.
Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) to Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) in Another 48 HRS (1990): ''If shit was worth something, poor people would be born with no asshole .''
Johnny Red (Paul Winfield) in Big Shots (1987): ''I can walk on water, eat bullets , and shit ice cream!''
Maj. Benson W. Payne (Damon Wayans) to the JROTC cadets in Major Payne (1995): ''You''ll get no sympathy from me. If you want sympathy, look in the dictionary between shit and syphilis . That''s where you''ll find sympathy.''
Barry (Ryan Phillippe) in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997): ''You two should look at a mirror sometime. You look like shit run over twice.''
Barry (Ryan Phillippe) in I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997): ''You two should look at a mirror sometime. You look like shit run over twice.''
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