Word.ws English Dictionary

knowing shit from Shinola

knowing shit from Shinola is the present participle and gerund of know shit from Shinola.

Meaning of know shit from Shinola

Verb

know shit from Shinola (third-person singular simple present knows shit from Shinola, present participle knowing shit from Shinola, simple past knew shit from Shinola, past participle known shit from Shinola)

  1. (US, stative, vulgar) To have the most basic level of intelligence or common sense.
    • "He don't know shit from Shinola. (laughter) you know that? Always wondered how the Shinola people felt about that (laughter) Hi, I'm the new man from Shinola. (laughter) Hi, how are ya? Nice to see ya? (laughter) How are ya? (laughter)"30 October 1973, George Carlin, "Filthy Words", WBAI Radio, quoted in FCC Reports, Second Series, Volume 56, October 31, 1975 to January 16, 1976, page 101

Questions about knowing shit from Shinola

What is knowing shit from Shinola the present participle and gerund of?
Knowing shit from Shinola is the present participle and gerund of know shit from Shinola.

Words near knowing shit from Shinola in the dictionary

  1. knowing one's own mind
  2. knowing one's place
  3. knowing one's shit
  4. knowing one's stuff
  5. knowing one's way around
  6. knowing shit from Shinola
  7. knowing someone
  8. knowing someone from a can of paint
  9. knowing someone from a hole in the ground
  10. knowing someone from a hole in the wall
  11. knowing someone from Adam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: knowing shit from Shinola (page history and authors); know shit from Shinola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “knowing shit from Shinola.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/knowing_shit_from_shinola. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.