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beshit

beshit verb: to soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).

Verb

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

  1. (literally, transitive, vulgar) To soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    befoul, shit on
  2. (figuratively, transitive, vulgar) To 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, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth

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Forms of beshit

third-person singular presentbeshits
present participlebeshitting
past participlebeshit
pastbeshit
past participlebeshat
pastbeshat
alternative formbeshite

Origin of beshit

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

Words that rhyme with beshit

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Questions about beshit

What does beshit mean?
Beshit means to soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
What part of speech is beshit?
Beshit is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshit?
The past tense of beshit is beshit.

Words near beshit in the dictionary

  1. beshields
  2. beshine
  3. beshines
  4. beshining
  5. beshirted
  6. beshit
  7. beshite
  8. beshiting
  9. beshits
  10. beshitten
  11. beshitting

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