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beshite

beshite verb: to shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.

Verb

beshite (third-person singular simple present beshites, present participle beshiting, simple past beshit or beshote or beshat, past participle beshitten)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.
    • At last Skelton awaked, & felt the sheetes all wete; waked his wife, and sayd, What, hast thou beshitten the bed?1856, John Skelton, Alexander Dyce, The Poetical Works of John Skelton

Forms of beshite

third-person singular presentbeshites
present participlebeshiting
pastbeshit
pastbeshote
pastbeshat
past participlebeshitten
alternative formbeshit

Origin of beshite

From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskītan, equivalent to be- + shite. Cognate with Scots beschite, German bescheißen, Danish beskide (“to beshit”).

Words formed from beshite

Questions about beshite

What does beshite mean?
Beshite means to shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.
What part of speech is beshite?
Beshite is a verb.
What is the past tense of beshite?
The past tense of beshite is beshit.

Words near beshite in the dictionary

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

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