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shitten

/ˈʃɪtən/

shitten is the past participle of shit.

shitten is the past participle of shite.

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...

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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Meaning of shite

Verb

shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past shited or shit or shat, past participle shited or shit or shat or shitten)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, UK, vulgar) To defecate.
    • […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies, page 38
    Synonyms:
    defecate

See all 5 meanings of shite

Verb

shitten (third-person singular simple present shittens, present participle shittening, simple past and past participle shittened)

  1. (transitive) To soil with shit; make shitty.
    • All was normal, and the next day, when I had shittened and wiped, once twice Puritan thrice, I actually reached around and touched my own tailbone, […]2019, Sharon Olds, Arias, page 66

Forms of shitten

alternative formshiten
third-person singular presentshittens
present participleshittening
past participleshittened
pastshittened

Origin of shitten

From shit + -en.

Words that rhyme with shitten

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about shitten

What does shitten mean?
Shitten means covered with or stained by excrement.
What is shitten the past participle of?
Shitten is the past participle of shit.
What part of speech is shitten?
Shitten can be an adjective or a verb.
How do you pronounce shitten?
Shitten is pronounced /ˈʃɪtən/.

Words near shitten in the dictionary

  1. shitted on
  2. shitted one's pants
  3. shitted oneself
  4. shitted up
  5. shitted with
  6. shitten
  7. shittened
  8. shittening
  9. shittens
  10. shitter
  11. shitters

Source and license

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