shite

• enPR: shīt, IPA^(key): /ʃaɪt/
• Rhymes: -aɪt

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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.

shite (usually uncountable, plural shites)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense.

   That’s a load of shite.

   Look at all this shite.

   • 2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Anwar: Sleep-walk”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 233:

     “I had a visit from one of Colonel Datka’s people this afternoon. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.” / “Shite.” The brass-necked gears are turning behind his eyes. “What makes you say that?” […] “Coincidences happen.”

2. (countable, chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar, derogatory, uncommon) A foolish or deceitful person.

   He's a useless shite.

   • 2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Dorothy: Breakdown”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 272:

     Pull yourself together. It’s not like he’s going to break in and rape you, is it? He’s just a nasty wee shite, as they say hereabouts, a misogynistic pick-up artist who’s too cheap to use a tissue.

shite (comparative shiter or more shite, superlative shitest or most shite)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) Bad; awful; shit.

   That was a shite film.

   • 2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Anwar: Diplomat”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, pages 91–92:

     In the end, you find yourself […] thinking about what the Gnome said about home brew. Shite beer, he’d said, unless you add a cofactor.

shite

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or dismay.

   Shite! I left my wallet at home.

   • 2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Toymaker: The Leith Police Dismisseth Us”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 33:

     Shite. It’s three o’fucking clock in the afternoon!

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”).

shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past shited or shit or shat, past participle shited or shit or shat or shitten)

1. (UK, chiefly Scotland, Ireland, vulgar) To defecate.
   • 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies, page 38:

     […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.

   • 2007, Talonie Starr, Growth Manifesto, page 173:

     He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.

   • 2011, Douglas Bruster, Eric Rasmussen, Everyman and Mankind:

     I have eaten a dishful of curds,
     And I have shitten your mouth full of turds.

• See Thesaurus:defecate

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