Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a chamberpot, a lavatory.

1739		R. Bull Grobianus 201: In case no other Utensil is nigh [...] Then use the Sh---pot, foul as foul can be, But then I beg you wou’d not drink to me.
1836		‘The Patent S--t-Pot’ in Cockchafer 34: She pull’d up her clouts where young Thomas was laid. / At sight of her movements he was much afraid, / But the nasty old devil, with infinite grace, / First f----d, and then let fly in his face! [...] But, hold of the story his neighbours soon got, / And from that time they call’d him the Old Maid’s S--t-pot!
1949		N. Mailer letter 30 Apr. in Selected Letters (2014) 82: If we see Davis we shall transmit one silver shitpot.
1965		J. Thompson Texas by the Tail (1994) 170: The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle.
1972		C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 427: You take your bath, we’ll let the shitpot wait.
1986		S. King It (1987) 877: Shut the door, Claude, that shitpot stinks to high heaven.

2. (also shitepot) an unpleasant person.

1849		K. Hastings N.Y. Daily Globe 5 Apr. 2/5: He [i.e. author ‘Ned Buntline’] called me a dirty s----p-t, and I will have the honor of being the first s----p-t to give him a cow-hiding. He has the law to resort to, and he is perfectly at liberty to use it.
1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1959		D. Niland Big Smoke 120: Dirty old louse! Stingy old shitpot!
1971		B. Malamud Tenants (1972) 121: Lesser, don’t think you so hot, / You got the look of a shit-pot.
1993		(con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 87: Man but yer a great pack of shitepots.

3. an unpleasant place, or inferior object; occas. as attrib.

1834		‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: Of all the Blowings on the town, / There’s none like my flash Sally; / By prigs and w--es she is well known, / And she lives in S--t-pot Alley.
1936		J.T. Farrell World I Never Made 245: I suffered [...] bringing all your kids into this shitpot of a home you give them.
1973		S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 52: You finally got that shitpot all together, huh?

4. (also shitpotful) a large amount, lit. a chamberpot-ful.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 195: Shitpot, a whole — full of A great deal of something.
1970		D. Ponicsan Last Detail 144: A shitpotful of the crew got deep-sixed.
1972		D. Jenkins Semi-Tough 17: I happened to scare up a publisher in New York who was enthusiastic enough about it to give me a whole lot of what you call your up-front whip-out. Which is a shitpot full of cash.
1974		(con. 1945) E. Thompson Tattoo (1977) 331: Someone was doing a shitpot of lying about China somewhere.