shitten
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Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Verb edit
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 edit
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 edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
shitten (third-person singular simple present shittens, present participle shittening, simple past and past participle shittened)
- (transitive) To soil with shit; make shitty.
- 2019, Sharon Olds, Arias, page 66:
- All was normal, and the next day, when I had shittened and wiped, once twice Puritan thrice, I actually reached around and touched my own tailbone, […]