beshit

B3E1S1H4I1T1

verb

To soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbbeshit (third-person singular simple present beshits, present participle beshitting, simple past and past participle beshit or beshat)

present singular third person beshits · participle present beshitting · participle past beshat · past beshat · alternative beshite

  1. 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 12
    3 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 Swift

    Your 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: befoul, shit on

  2. figurativelytransitivevulgarTo soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.

    Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead.

    2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side

    Synonyms: bedirty, foul, gunk, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood)

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).

verbTo soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.

Origin

  1. Old Englishbesċītan“to befoul”
  2. Middle Englishbishiten
  3. Englishbeshit

From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”). By surface analysis, be- + shit.

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