shitwork
shitwork noun: work of low status or yielding little satisfaction.
Noun
shitwork (uncountable)
- Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction.
- Now it was real detective shitwork.1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, page 276
- GM paid us a tidy income and we did the shitwork. No one was holding a gun to anyone's head.1991, Ben Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
- Tasks which could be done automatically by software but which the software forces the user to do manually.
Examples of shitwork in a sentence
- I'm not into chasing some poor OTM wants to come in here and earn food money doing the kind of shitwork native-born Americans won't do.2005, Linda Barnes, Coyote, page 111:
- That's why he has to do the same shitwork we do.2006, Katarzyna Marciniak, Alienhood: citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference, page 53:
Synonyms of shitwork
Origin of shitwork
From shit + work.
Questions about shitwork
- What does shitwork mean?
- Shitwork means work of low status or yielding little satisfaction.
- How do you use shitwork in a sentence?
- I'm not into chasing some poor OTM wants to come in here and earn food money doing the kind of shitwork native-born Americans won't do.
- What part of speech is shitwork?
- Shitwork is a noun.
Words near shitwork in the dictionary
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