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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, Ireland, vulgar Shit, trash, rubbish.
- n. UK, Ireland, pejorative A foolish or deceitful person.
- adj. UK, Ireland, vulgar Bad, awful, shit.
- interj. UK, Ireland, vulgar An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
- v. UK, vulgar To defecate.
WordNet 3.0
- n. obscene terms for feces
Etymologies
- From Middle English schiten, from Old English scītan ("to defecate, shit"), from Proto-Germanic *skītanan (“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"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A “long time” in the world of a thieving little shite is approximately 2 hours and 7 minutes. on September 8, 2009 at 6: 16 pm thespecialone”
Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“In Military SF and Epic Fantasy the same old reactionary shite is still churned out by the bucketload, and readers lap it up.”
“Good to see you have realised my suggestions on more explodin shite was both SOUND and valid ..”
“Having a high speed train instead of that shite is killing 2 birds with 1 stone.”
“Yet again shite everywhere, half eaten food, drinks spilled all over the floor.”
“The conways are out now anyway, they were shite from the beginning.”
“Of course, it will also annoy you that that shite is out there and your stuff is not.”
“How many times have you dealt with a damage only T. A, informed both partys that all they need to do is exchange details, then find one of the pratts has reported it at the desk any way “just incase”, so getting the other poor twat RIGHT up the swanny and up to the neck in shite for “failing to report”? on January 21, 2010 at 10: 10 am Hairless Bear”
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“If I point out the fact that, hello, that's a big pile of cliched, racist, stereotyping, fuckin shite, well, I want to hear some fucking arguments as to why I'm wrong.”
“For me it’s this: if you want me to read to you, or hang out with you, while you read, you don’t read tv tie-in shite bought at Scholastic.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shite’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Expletive Mimicry
Words that sound like words you shouldn't use.
frak, feldergarb, dagummit, daggum, gosh, darn, golly, fiddleesticks, fudge, gee, dang, shoot and 36 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
Alles ganz verschieden
Listed various words that have come into my mind. Will edit them at some point - honestly.
dog-gold, shoulderlooker, mr. considering, the pigwoman, stevie is waiting, chingwybodganpwy, thelandscapeisstu..., couchsurfing, cappuccinodrinking, meat-eater, posher, mae rhaid i fi fynd and 581 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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dickcherry's drivel
the words i'm thinking with
doing, boing, going, tincture, pingback, womenswear, jounce, wrack, a, ish, beeswax, thither and 97 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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brutalwit's Words
scientifiction, scalawag, strumpet, schadenfreude, wanker, shite, bollocks, fuck, robust, cosmos, socialist, regrettable and 36 more...
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Kawaii Headdesk
The internet has given birth to a most hideous beast: a subculture that merges the worst of middle-school drama, valley-girl stupidity, and pop-culture idolatry. Add a dash of emo and a pinch of sn...
preggers, hugz, lawl, teehee, awwwwww, wtf, omg, haxx0r, stfu, roflol, pwn, d00d and 85 more...
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The best slang.
Slang from all areas and time periods.
dig, square, shady, sketchy, bum, dicks, deebo, hype, shite, tarnation, dip, goddamn and 2 more...
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I'd like to use these words more
jarring, stunning, habitually, mull, markedly, rigamorole, rigmarole, placate, higgledy-piggledy, fearsome, throw light, clear-eyed and 68 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for shite.
bilby None as far as I can see/smell ptero. But the pronunciation of shite, plus the fact that it's relatively uncommon, gives it added bite.
In some British dialects shite is standard. No Scotsman worth his pasty suntan would say shit, for example. Sep 1, 2008
pterodactyl I was just over at mandals, and now I find myself wondering... what's the difference between shit and shite?
Normally I would turn to our resident expert for help on such matters, but in this case I think I need to consult some non-Americans. Sep 1, 2008
brtom -- O! Mr Dedalus cried, giving vent to a hopeless groan, shite and onions!
Joyce, Ulysses, 7 Jan 1, 2007