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shite¹

  • /ʃaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.

noun shites

  1. Ireland, UK, uncountable, usually, vulgar Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense. That’s a load of shite.
  2. Ireland, UK, countable, derogatory, uncommon, usually A foolish or deceitful person. He's a useless shite.

adjective shiter · more shite · shitest · most shite

  1. Ireland, UK, vulgar Bad; awful; shit. That was a shite film.

interjection

  1. Ireland, UK, vulgar An expression of annoyance or dismay. Shite! I left my wallet at home.

shite²

  • /ʃaɪt/

Rhymes with -aɪt

Where it comes from

From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).

verb shites · shiting · shited · shit · shat

  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.

    Similar: defecate

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: frak, lame, filth, wack, creepy, trouble, damn, kaput, merde, poop, invalid, void, null, nil, garbage, dammit

Translations

Every language

noun shit

Françaismerde
DeutschScheiße
Ελληνικάσκατά skatá

noun trash; rubbish; nonsense

한국어개털 gaeteol
Françaisconneries
DeutschScheiß

adj bad, shit

한국어개털 gaeteol
Françaisà chier
Deutschscheiße

intj expression of annoyance or dismay

Françaismerde
DeutschScheiße
Ελληνικάσκατά skatá
Русскийблядь bljadʹ

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"shite." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/shite. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{shite_2026,
  title = {shite},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shite},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}