shit – English noun declension

English noun forms of shit

Noun: shit
Singularshit
Pluralshits

Sample Sentences

  • The field is covered in shit.
  • He left a shit in the toilet.
  • The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher. [2011 July 30, “Cholera and the super-loo”, in The Economist:]
  • He also decided that Belters wouldn’t use the term “bullshit,” because there would be no bulls in the Belt. Instead, they would come up with a uniquely Belter curse, “kaka felota,” a term for what happens when your toilet backs up in low gravity and shit floats all over the place. (“Kata felota” literally means “floating shit.”) [2019 December 22, Annalee Newitz and Cyrus Farivar, “Nick Farmer knows dozens of languages, so he invented one for The Expanse”, in Ars Technica, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:]
  • I need to take a shit.
  • Throw that shit out!
  • Get rid of that shit!
  • Bring that shit to the disposal.
  • I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
  • Fuck it. I don't feel like doing this shit.
  • JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap. [1998, Jim Kouf, Ross LaManna, Rush Hour, California: New Line Cinema:]
  • Don't know why I put up with this shit / When you don't put out and Zip City's so far away [2001, “Zip City”, performed by Mike Cooley:]
  • He’s physical and monosyllabic. He does all sorts of cool shit, and he subtly rediscovers his own heroism without making a big thing out of it. But he’s a supporting character, and he knows it. [2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022:]
  • These grapes are the shit!
  • jerk one's shit
  • Everything he says is a load of shit.
  • Enough of this shit!
  • Quit your shit!
  • What is this shit?
  • Aw, this shit again?
  • This guy is full of shit.
  • Her son has been a real shit to her.
  • I am a shit and a rotter.
  • Get the fuck out of here you little shit!
  • …I hate you back, you little shit! [1979, Robert Benton, Kramer vs. Kramer, spoken by Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman):]
  • (Admittedly, the fact that Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s vampiric treasury secretary, was a Fury Road executive producer complicates this whole parallel. I don’t know what to do with that. Even pieces of shit can, I suppose, be involved with great things from time to time.) [2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2022:]
  • We don’t have shit to live on. (We don’t have anything to live on.)
  • John can't sing for shit. (John can't sing at all.)
  • You ain't shit. (You're nothing; you aren't worth anything.)
  • I don't give a shit.
  • I'm in some serious shit.
  • Some shit went down at the nightclub last night.
  • I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
  • ‘Now,’ he said, ‘if someone would close the curtains and light a joss-stick, I have here for your delight some twenty-four-carat black Nepalese cannabis resin which should be smoked immediately on account of it being seriously good shit.’ [1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 20:]
  • I heard Bobby escaped from the police by jumping off a bridge into the river. Ain't that some shit?

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-West Germanic *skittjā
3. Old English sċitte
4. Old English *sċite
5. Middle English schite
6. English shit
7. From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”).
8. Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse. See: Middle English Nouns 'schit', Old English Nouns '*sċite', Dutch Nouns 'schijt', German Nouns 'Scheiße', Danish Nouns 'skidt', Icelandic Nouns 'skítur'.

Verbs referencing "shit"

Dutch Nouns shit, French Nouns shit, Danish Nouns skid, German Nouns Scheiße, German Nouns Schiss, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns skit, Dutch Nouns schijt, Irish Nouns sceith, Galician Nouns xete, Finnish Nouns shitti.