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Etymology
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Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.
scheisse (uncountable)
- Euphemistic form of shit.
1996 December 3, El Chino The Great, “Re: Viet Kieu Chong Cong can biet”, in soc.culture.vietnamese[1] (Usenet):Your fathers beat the scheisse out of our fathers with their DDi.ch Va^.n and Da^n Va^.n.
1997 February 3, Riffster, “Re: Djorkaeff's The Man”, in rec.sport.soccer[2] (Usenet):Enjoying your walk in Polyglot Park? Watch out for the scheisse!
1997 December 16, Tommy Gehring, “Re: WI there's TRUE racial equality?”, in soc.history.what-if[3] (Usenet):They would say that it is the return of the old Jim Crow laws or some scheisse (highly technical term) like that.
2015 May 12, Scott Lurndal, “Re: boolean string function to determine if the parentheses are balanced”, in comp.lang.c++[4] (Usenet):What is all this double-spaced scheisse?
Interjection
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scheisse
- Euphemistic form of shit.
2003 January 30, Noelle, “Re: Idle hands: Baby naming poll”, in alt.support.childfree[5] (Usenet):Oh, scheisse. Talk about some people with idle hands.
2003 December 12, Chris, “Holy scheisse”, in alt.music.dave-matthews[6] (Usenet): 2004 July 2, Dr Ivan D. Reid, “Clue that raises a smile”, in rec.puzzles.crosswords[7] (Usenet):Oh, scheisse! And it turned up in the Guardian within the last fortnight, too, IIRC.
2004 August 4, Gerry Armstrong, “Re: Moonchild - Parsons & Hubbard Off Off Broadway”, in alt.religion.scientology[8] (Usenet):When will they play Chilliwack? Oh scheisse, when will they play Clamwater®?
Pennsylvania German
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