Etymology

shitfire

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Today it means: Used to express surprise, shock, exasperation, or disbelief. Full definition →

Spanish cacafuego
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The story

  1. Spanish · calque ofcacafuego“braggart”
  2. English todayshitfire

From shit + fire, possibly a calque of Spanish cacafuego (“braggart”, literally “fireshitter”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.