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pantshitting

pantshitting adjective: of an event, experience, or emotion that is exceptionally terrifying, stressful, or shocking.

Adjective

pantshitting (comparative more pantshitting, superlative most pantshitting)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) Of an event, experience, or emotion that is exceptionally terrifying, stressful, or shocking.
    • That was a pantshittingly close call on the highway.

Forms of pantshitting

comparativemore pantshitting
superlativemost pantshitting

Origin of pantshitting

Blend of pants + shitting; derived from the phrase shitting one's pants which originated literally as a bodily reaction to extreme fear.

Questions about pantshitting

What does pantshitting mean?
Pantshitting means of an event, experience, or emotion that is exceptionally terrifying, stressful, or shocking.
What part of speech is pantshitting?
Pantshitting is an adjective.

Words near pantshitting in the dictionary

  1. pantsed
  2. pantser
  3. pantsers
  4. pantses
  5. pantsets
  6. pantshitting
  7. pantsie
  8. pantsies
  9. pantsing
  10. pantsings
  11. pantsless

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