Definitions

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  • verb Past participle of beshite.
  • adjective Covered with or befouled with or as with excrement.

Etymologies

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From Middle English bishiten, from Old English besciten, past participle of bescītan ("to befoul"). More at beshite.

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Examples

  • If diaps wants to join his beshitten peers, there are lots of blogs for him.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Security Line Threat 2009

  • He passes himself off as an Englishman, whose privileged vantage point is "the streets of London," someone like the Hogarth he envisions ( "a simpler and more accessible artist"), the xenophobe who bluntly asserted that France was "all gilt and beshitten."

    Lenin's Paintings 2009

  • Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly handled, hampered, and cited; whereby also Shrovetide was declared filthy, beshitten, and berayed, in case he made any league or agreement with them; they are grown wonderfully inveterate, incensed, and obstinate against one another, and there is no way to remedy it.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly handled, hampered, and cited; whereby also Shrovetide was declared filthy, beshitten, and berayed, in case he made any league or agreement with them; they are grown wonderfully inveterate, incensed, and obstinate against one another, and there is no way to remedy it.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • No hodge by the same token, you where that time beshitten?

    Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575

  • Council of Chesil, whereby they were roughly handled, hampered, and cited; whereby also Shrovetide was declared filthy, beshitten, and berayed, in case he made any league or agreement with them; they are grown wonderfully inveterate, incensed, and obstinate against one another, and there is no way to remedy it.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

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