Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a general negative; used of someone or something second-rate, unpleasant, distasteful etc.

1945		K. Amis letter 31 Dec. in Leader (2000) 30: I wonder if the MacCarthy who wrote it is the MACSHITE MacCarthy who is supposed to run the Marble Arch Mus Shop.
1988		R. Doyle Commitments 17: Tha’ was a shite film, said Derek.
1990		R. Doyle Snapper 121: His shoulders were at him. He felt shite.
1992		P. McCabe Butcher Boy (1993) 32: Do you think any of them believe that shite-talk you’ve been going on with all night?
1999		Guardian 26 Aug. 5: We’ve been left holding the shite sandwich.
2000		N. Barlay Crumple Zone 171: Some crusty has-been guitar hero who now runs some shite recordng studio.
2000		Daily Tel. 10 Jan. 19: Moments later, the man himself arrived home in a cheerful flurry of everyday obscenities. (His first adjective was ‘fookin’, his second ‘dead’ as in ‘dead cool’, his third was ‘shite’.).
2006		D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 101: He [...] makes shite jokes we have to laugh at.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 218: ‘He’s a shite liar’.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 157: I’d just had shite news [...] I just needed tae get mashed.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 45: ‘[S]he was never gonnae stick to waitressing [...] Just as well. She’s shite at it’.
2019		A. Killilea Boyo-wulf at https://boyowulf.home.blog 14 Apr. 🌐 Then some mad feen went through a time of shite craic.