pants-shittingly
pants-shittingly adverb: in a manner, or to a degree, capable of causing one to soil oneself in fear; terrifyingly.
Adverb
pants-shittingly (comparative more pants-shittingly, superlative most pants-shittingly)
- In a manner, or to a degree, capable of causing one to soil oneself in fear; terrifyingly.
- I convinced myself with every passing peaceful moment that things were getting better, that the worst was over. In that, I was pants-shittingly wrong.2009, David Wong, John Dies at the End, Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 41
- These guys literally tear into the house lurching toward the children with their arms maniacally in front of them — a pants-shittingly scary Night of the Living Dead reprisal that was not only hysterically antigovernment in its portrayal, but really not appropriate for any kind of movie marketed to...2011, David Sirota, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now -- Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 86
Forms of pants-shittingly
| comparative | more pants-shittingly |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pants-shittingly |
Origin of pants-shittingly
From the phrase shit one's pants.
Questions about pants-shittingly
- What does pants-shittingly mean?
- Pants-shittingly means in a manner, or to a degree, capable of causing one to soil oneself in fear; terrifyingly.
- What part of speech is pants-shittingly?
- Pants-shittingly is an adverb.
Words near pants-shittingly in the dictionary
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