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  • noun pejorative Work of low status or satisfaction.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores

Etymologies

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shit +‎ work

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Examples

  • In addition to doing the shitwork that women have been doing for generations, possibly not exist?

    Think Progress » In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked in 190K a Day 2006

  • You must kowtow to your boss, do incredible shitwork, and any children that you spawn are virtually guaranteed to be ungrateful americanized pond scum.

    howdy yall, wife and I want to be free 2005

  • Sure enough, we had a discussion about “shitwork” in one of my sociology classes, and nobody even blinked.

    Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

  • Sure enough, we had a discussion about “shitwork” in one of my sociology classes, and nobody even blinked.

    Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

  • People who want their numbers to look good refuse to do the work needed and take the easy things, leaving the shitwork for the others because they whine about their job the most.

    terrarose Diary Entry terrarose 2005

  • This is what I do for a living, although I've found one can net slightly more income by calling it "Adminstrative Assistant" or "Executive Associate" or whatever than one can by calling it what it is, lots of typing and occasional shitwork.

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2003

  • Back to Warrants or Homicide shitwork until Russ Millard gets tired of you?

    White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992

  • Buzz put away his notepad, taking a last look at the four names Dudley Smith had called him with earlier: Reds to be background-checked, more shitwork, probably more padding.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • Power: including rank over Dudley Smith and the noblesse oblige to make an afternoon of shitwork with Buzz Meeks tolerable.

    The Big Nowhere Ellroy, James, 1948- 1988

  • I have little interest in some hypothetical emergent entrepreneurial class of self-employed data / word processors who will soon be able to carry on a vast cottage industry or piecemeal shitwork for various corporations and bureaucracies.

    home 2009

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