beshitten

beshitten is the past participle of beshite.

Meaning of beshite

Verb

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

(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

Adjective

beshitten (comparative more beshitten, superlative most beshitten)

Covered with or befouled with or as with excrement.
- They had put Thierry in some absurd predicaments over the years, but on none of his missions had he been required to sleep in beshitten alleys with beshitten alley allies pretending to be he didn't quite know what.2003, D. K. K. de Killingholme, Vancouver Mission

Forms of beshitten

comparative	more beshitten
superlative	most beshitten

Origin of beshitten

From Middle English bishiten, from Old English besċiten, past participle of besċītan (“to befoul”). More at beshite. Cognate with German beschissen (“beshitten, shitty”).

Questions about beshitten

What does beshitten mean?: Beshitten means covered with or befouled with or as with excrement.
What is beshitten the past participle of?: Beshitten is the past participle of beshite.
What part of speech is beshitten?: Beshitten is an adjective.

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