Meanings
present singular third person beshits · participle present beshitting · participle past beshat · past beshat · alternative beshite
- literallytransitivevulgarTo soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
He will beshit himself in a public place.
2010, Howard Jacobson, The Making of Henry, →ISBN, page 123 more examples
He looked like one that had beshit the roast.
1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 89...So Ditton and Whiston may both be bepissed on And Whiston and Ditton may both be beshit on. Sing Ditton beshit on, and Whiston bepissed on. Sing Ditton and Whiston, and Whiston and Ditton, Beshit and bepissed on, bepissed on and beshit on.
1714, Ode, to Music. On the Longitude, Jonathan SwiftYour heart muſt needs be grip'd and full of ſtitches, And you may well thro' fear beſhit your breeches.
1760, Thomas Brown, “Advice to Dr. Oates”, in Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse, page 243
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.
Origin
- Old Englishbesċītan“to befoul”
- Middle Englishbishiten
- Englishbeshit
From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”). By surface analysis, be- + shit.
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beshit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beshit
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