shite v.
to defecate.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Bibliotheca Eliotæ n.p.: Merdo, are, to expell ordure, to shite. | |
| Till Eulenspiegel. n.p.: Than tourned the parson hym about and went and shite in the church a great heape and sayd clarke I haue wonne the barell of bere. | |
 | Merie Tales of Skelton ix C: Skelton then caste downe the clothes, and the frere dyd lye starke naked: then Skelton dyd shite upon the freeres navil. | |
| A vvorlde of wordes n.p.: Andar doue ne papa, ne imperatore, puó mandar imbasciatore, to go pisse or shite. | |
| Dictionarie in Eng. and Latine 288: To shite, Caco. | |
| Gypsies Metamorphosed 29: Clawe a Churle by the arse and heel shite in your fist. | |
| The northern lasse n.p.: And the Physician teach men spue, or shite. | |
| A New bull-bayting 4: Ha—looe, ha—looe Towzer; he has him by the Nose already: Hold thy hold Towzer [...] O brave Towzer, uds-futt, he makes him Roare, and Shite. | |
| ‘To a friend upon a jouney to Epsam Well’ Musarum Deliciae (1817) 10: But he that gains the glory here / Must scumber furthest, shite most clear. | |
| et al. ‘Dialogue’ in Wit and Drollery 133: qu.: Dost thou piss love? ans.: No, I shite hony. | |
| Proverbs 66: All is not butter the cow shites. | |
| ‘Upon the Author of a Play call’d Sodom’ in Rochester Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 130: There bugger wiping Porters, when they shite, / And so thy Book itself, turn Sodomite. | |
| Wits Paraphras’d 35: Then I betook me to my Writing; / ’Twill serve you when you go a sh---ing. / Blest Paper! To what happy pass / Art thou ordain’d, to kiss her A---. | |
| ‘A Second part of John Dory’ in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 27: He run to his Tent, and ask’d what they meant / And swore he must needs go shite a. | |
| Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 238: A Hobby Horse Ditty in Praise of Juniper-Ale. To the Cow-Dance Tune of gallop and Shite. | |
| Bog-House and Glass-Window Misc. 35: Poets who write / On the Wall as they sh-te. | |
| Parson’s Revels (2010) 62: Nor Cudmore, even when he sh...s / Would want ’em. | |
| Bog-house Misc. 32: If you design to sh--te at Ease, / Pray rest your Hands upon your Knees. | |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 23: The motion felt at first for sh—g / Was strangely chang’d to one for fighting. | |
| ‘Johnny Brecking’s Wedding’ Poetical Works 135: He slipt more that day into his kite, / Than would serve him for a whole month to -----. | |
| Fun for the Million 493/1: Speak cleanly to our king, or else go sh*t*. | |
| ‘The Rose Under The Clothes’ Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 32: By there came a clown in a frock all so white, / And close by their side he sat down to shite. | |
| Cythera’s Hymnal 63: One morn I went to shite. | |
| Cremorne II 53: I love to shite in the calm moonlight. | |
| Goodbye to The Hill (1966) 8: On The Hill you learned early, and you were more likely to be told to go and shite by a four-year-old then you were by its mother. | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Snapper 27: The dog’s after shitein’ in the fuckin’ hall an’ I fuckin’ stood in it. |
In derivatives
terrified.
| Grits 97: Iss cunt clocked me lookin at im an fucked off shiters. | |
| Stump 49: Tommy hasn’t got the fuckin arse to bounce in on the Chinks, has he? Pure fuckin shiters, man. |
In compounds
a term of abuse applied to a hot-headed person.
| Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Cacafuoco, a hot violent fellow, a shite-fire. | |
| Dict. n.p.: Caca-fuoco, a shite-fire, by Met. a hot-spur, a rash-headed fellow. | |
| ‘Helter Skelter’ in Poems on Divers Subjects (1706) 159: Low-Churchman. I fsy, Sir, you're a meer Shite-fire / [...] / A Popish Slave, a Jacobite / That would have all the Nation groans / Beneath the Whore of Babylon. |
‘an idle lazie fellow’; a miser.
| in Worlde of Wordes n.p.: Cacastraccie a shite-rags, an idle, lazie, loobie fellow. A pinch penie, a niggard. |
a stubborn, unpleasant individual; a miser.
| A vvorlde of wordes n.p.n.p.: Cacastecchi, a hard chuffe, a shite-sticks, a niggard, a shittē fellow. |
In phrases
1. see shit v. (5)
2. see shit out under shit v.
In exclamations
(Scot.) aggressive phr. of dismissal; var. on ‘go away’, ‘leave me alone’.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Bloody January 6: ‘Away and shite, Nairn, you’re wasting my time’. |
an excl. of dismissal, equivalent to the hell with...! under hell n. (cf. shit on…! under shit v.).
| Jovial Crew V i: Shite o’ your Master. My Master Steward’s a better Man. |