shitten
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɪtən/
- Rhymes: -ɪtən
Verb
shitten
- (archaic) past participle of shit
- 1983, Carol Clark, The Vulgar Rabelais:
- Panurge has shitten himself for fear, and grabbed the cat thinking it was one of a horde of devils invading the ship.
- 2017, Peter Wright, A Brief History of The Men’s Rights Movement: From 1856 to the present:
- That any member refusing to clean the child when it has shitten or bawed (as the term may be), he shall forfeit sixpence.
- (archaic) past participle of shite
Adjective
shitten (not comparable)
- (archaic) Covered with or stained by excrement
- (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement
- (by extension) disgusting; contemptible.
- c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:
- Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:shitten.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.