scheisse

See also: Scheisse, scheiße, and Scheiße

English

Alternative forms

• Scheiss, Scheisse, Scheiße, scheiss, scheiße, shize

Etymology

Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of shit.

Noun

scheisse (uncountable)

1. 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

scheisse

1. 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®?

Danish

Alternative forms

• scheiße

Etymology

Borrowed from German Scheiße. Doublet of skid and skidt.

Interjection

scheisse

1. (vulgar, colloquial) Exclamation of displeasure.

Synonyms

• fuck, for helvede, pis

German

Adjective

scheisse (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of scheiße.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German scheißen, Dutch schijten, English shit.

Verb

scheisse

1. to shit