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shiten

shiten is the alternative spelling of shitten.

shiten is the past participle of shit; alternative spelling of shit.

Meaning of shitten

Adjective

shitten (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Covered with or stained by excrement
  2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement
  3. (broadly) disgusting; contemptible.
    • Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act...

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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

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Questions about shiten

What is shiten the alternative spelling of?
Shiten is the alternative spelling of shitten.

Words near shiten in the dictionary

  1. shitehawks
  2. shitehead
  3. shiteheads
  4. shiteload
  5. shiteloads
  6. shiten
  7. shitepoke
  8. shitepokes
  9. shiter
  10. shites
  11. shitest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shiten (page history and authors); shitten (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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