Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. covered in excrement; generally filthy.

c.1386		Chaucer General Prologue to Canterbury Tales line 504: And shame it is, if a prest take keepe A shiten shepherde and a clene sheepe.
c.1538		D. Lyndsay ‘Supplication Against Syde Taillis’ in Laing Works I 131: I ken ane man, quhilk swoir greit aithis, / How he did lift ane Kittokis claithis [...] How hir syde taill was beshitten.
1654		Witts Recreations Epigram No. 183: Dod sweetly dreamt [...] But waking felt he was with Fleas sore bitten, And further smelt he had his shirt be—.
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 30: He [...] was by me shown a very Shitten trick which put him into a stinking condition.
1672		J. Phillips Maronides (1678) VI 28: Would it were mine in shitten clout.
1681		‘An Heroic Poem’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 69: Nay, to deserve a confidence so large, / Still keeps cast shitten Moll at the King’s charge.
1688		‘Session of Ladies’ in Wilson Court Satires of the Restoration (1976) 211: Her natural mother came in for a snack, / That ballocking squirter and shitten arsed whore.
1699		N. Ward London Spy VII 153: You Off-Spring of a Dung-hill [...] You Shitten Rogues, who Worship the Fundament, because you live by a Turd.
1706		J. Floyer Essay to Prove Cold Bathing (2nd edn) II 123: Your Nurse was a Slut, she let you lie in your Sh-t--n Clouts.
c.1709		‘Underneath the Castle Wall’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 207: Underneath the rotten Hedge, the Tinkers Wife sat shitting, / tearing off a Cabbage Leaf, her shitten A-- A wiping; / With her cole black Hands she scratch’d her A-- And swore she was beshitten.
1722		‘Whipping-Tom’ Foppish Mode of Taking Snuff I 10: A Laundry Maid can’t iron her Linnen [...] a Nurse wash her Sh--t-- Clouts, nor a Chamber Maid empty her Close-Stool, without a Pinch of Snuff.
1741		R. Speed Compter Scuffle 20: She took a Dishclout off the Shelf, / And with it wip’d the shitten Elf, / Which did not have Wit to wipe itself, poor Shit-breech.
1743		‘Roger Pheuquewell’ Description of Roads to Merryland 7: On account of the foggy Air, and the noisome Winds which frequently blow from Shittnland, [sic] there are few People chuse to go that Way.
1750		Friar and Boy Pt II 20: Her shift did hang about her heels, Like any shitten clout.
1771		Foote Maid of Bath Married I iv: Those who bear up the train [...] Who walk with their nose in a sh-tt-n Cub’s a---.

2. unpleasant, disgusting; mediocre, second-rate, thus adv. shittenly, n. cmpd shitten-cum-shite.

c.1550		T. Ingelend Disobedient Child Fi: Slaye me with thy knyfe, thou shytten Dastarde.
1575		Gammer Gurton’s Garland II ii 1: Fy, shytten knaue! and out vpon thee! [OED].
1593		Nashe Four Letters Confuted in Works II (1883–4) 245: Hang thee, thou common coosener of curteous readers, thou grosse shifter for shitten tapsterly iefts.
1594		Greene & Lodge Looking-Glass for London and England in Dyce (1861) 127: Thou’rt a shitten quean to call me a drunk.
1600		Munday & Drayton Sir John Oldcastle I i: Gough, my lord Herbert’s man, is a shitten knave.
c.1620		Beaumont & Fletcher Little French Lawyer II iii: Thy Lady, is a scurvy Lady, a shitten Lady [...] a deboshed Lady.
1665		‘R.M.’ Scarronides 18: The Priest was in a shitten case.
1696		Motteux (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk V 554: What kind of voyage are we making? A shitten one, on my word.
1700		N. Ward A Frolic to Horn-Fair 11: You Shitten Skull’d Son of a T—d [...] fit for nothing but to be cast into a Goldfinders Ditch.
1756		W. Toldervy Hist. of the Two Orphans II 165: O! O! what you are Mr. Flat, the sh--t--n Psalm-singer are you?
1899		Crissie 122: ‘Well, by heavens! [...] This is too damned shittenly bad altogether’.
1993		S. King Dolores Claiborne 124: ‘I’ll worry about my voice,’ I say [...] ‘You worry about the way this beshitted bank does business, chummy!’.
2002		Simon & Burns ‘The Target’ Wire ep. 1 [TV script] The Deputy [...] has what’s left of your beshitted career in his hot little hands.