Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Vulgar The excrement of a horse.
- n. Vulgar Slang Meaningless or insincere talk or action; nonsense.
- interj. Vulgar Slang Used to express disagreement or exasperation.
Wiktionary
- n. vulgar, slang Serious harassment or abuse.
- n. vulgar, slang Blatant nonsense, more likely stemming from ignorance than any intent to deceive.
- n. vulgar, slang bullshit
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Vulgar slang A ludicrously false statement.
WordNet 3.0
- n. obscene words for unacceptable behavior
Etymologies
- horse + shit (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Right-wing repiggie horseshit is an opiate to that little teabagger Klansman.”
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years.
“Well, if there were such massacres, that merely emphasizes why the Zionist concept was so much stupid horseshit from the git-go.”
“The level of stupidity out there fostered by christian fundamentalist horseshit is truly appalling.”
Think Progress » Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas.
“All this from lushposh, who interviewed Rory and got the horseshit from the horse's mouth.”
“I call horseshit on "Vehicle has a Name" being only worth 2 points.”
“This is all so much horseshit from the fighting keyboarders.”
“Michael O'Leary: Global warming is 'horseshit' - and other insights”
“Global warming is 'horseshit' - and other insights”
“Isn’t it nice to know that not only is your report NSFW, apparently the word horseshit is obscene. who’d-a-thunkit?”
“Much of Hickel's considerable success, as recorded here, was due to his administrative style ” he bullied and inspired sluggish bureaucrats into action, tried to and sometimes did cut through governmental red tape, and refused to engage in technocratic jargon (he once asked John Mitchell, "Doesn't anyone around here ever use the word horseshit?").”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘horseshit’.
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you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 159 more...
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horse phrases
phrases compounds
horned horse, horse aloes, horse-and-buggy, horse and foot, horse and horse, horse ant, horse arm, horse-armoury, horse-arms, horse-artillery, horse-ball, horse-balm and 445 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
Jilly's Words
luscious, horseshit, marlpit, teratoma, yonder, squish, frank, soft, spire, mentalist, ululation, youins and 42 more...
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betty's Words
bulbous, nefarious, dichotomy, derelect, horseshit, juxtaposed, quirky, languid
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