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shet

shet is the pronunciation spelling of shut.

shet is the pronunciation spelling of shit.

Noun

shet (plural shets)

  1. (archaic) shed
  2. (archaic) sheet

Meaning of shut

Verb

shut (third-person singular simple present shuts, present participle shutting, simple past shut, past participle shut or (obsolete, dialectal) shutten)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
    • Please shut the door.
  2. (intransitive, transitive) To make or become unreceptive.
    • He has shut his mind to new ideas.
  3. (UK, intransitive, transitive) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
    • They generally shut the museum each day at 6 pm.
  4. (intransitive, transitive) To put out of use or operation.
    • We are shutting the phone lines at 9 pm.
  5. (intransitive, transitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
    • Phone lines will shut in ten minutes.
  6. (ergative, intransitive, transitive, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
    • Shut the file when you have finished reading data.

See all 22 meanings of shut

Meaning of shit

Verb

shit (third-person singular simple present shits, present participle shitting, simple past shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit, past participle shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit or shitten)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive, literally, vulgar) To defecate.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.
  2. (colloquial, literally, transitive, vulgar) To excrete (something) through the anus.
  3. (colloquial, literally, reflexive, transitive, vulgar) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
    • I laughed so hard I shat myself.
  4. (ambitransitive, colloquial, slang, vulgar) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
    • Of course, the farter does not dislike the smell of his own doing, but anybody else's fart, "Katey, bar the doors" and shouting, "Who shit?"2008, Norman A. Richards, What Do Women Gossip About?, page 35
  5. (colloquial, transitive, vulgar) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
    • Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
  6. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, transitive) To annoy.
    • I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 70

See all 27 meanings of shit

Forms of shet

Verb
third-person singular presentshets
present participleshetting
pastshetted
past participleshetted
past participleshet
Noun
pluralshets

Words that rhyme with shet

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Questions about shet

What does shet mean?
Shet means shed.
What is shet the pronunciation spelling of?
Shet is the pronunciation spelling of shut.
What part of speech is shet?
Shet is a noun.
What is the plural of shet?
The plural of shet is shets.

Words near shet in the dictionary

  1. shes
  2. sheself
  3. Shesha
  4. Sheshnaga
  5. Sheskinshule
  6. shet
  7. shetadlan
  8. shetadlanim
  9. shetadlanut
  10. shetani
  11. shetar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shet (page history and authors); shut (page history and authors); shit (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.

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