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shite.

Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ʃaɪt/

  1. Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense.

    Ireland · UK · uncountable · usually · vulgar
    That’s a load of shite.
    Look at all this shite.

  2. A foolish or deceitful person.

    Ireland · UK · countable · derogatory · uncommon · usually · vulgar
    He's a useless shite.
Where this word comes from

From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.

adj/ʃaɪt/

  1. Bad; awful; shit.

    Ireland · UK · vulgar
    That was a shite film.
Where this word comes from

From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.

intj/ʃaɪt/

  1. An expression of annoyance or dismay.

    Ireland · UK · vulgar
    Shite! I left my wallet at home.
Where this word comes from

From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.

verb/ʃaɪt/

  1. To defecate.

    Ireland · Scotland · UK · vulgar
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).

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