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beshit en · VERB

From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”). By surface analysis, be- + shit.

(literally, transitive, vulgar) To soil with excrement; to defecate on (something).
- He looked like one that had beshit the roast. 1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 89:
- He will beshit himself in a public place. 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Making of Henry, →ISBN, page 12:
- Your heart muſt needs be grip'd and full of ſtitches, And you may well thro' fear beſhit your breeches. 1760, Thomas Brown, “Advice to Dr. Oates”, in Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse, page 243:
- ...So Ditton and Whiston may both be bepissed on And Whiston and Ditton may both be beshit on. Sing Ditton beshit on, and Whiston bepissed on. Sing Ditton and Whiston, and Whiston and Ditton, Beshit and bepissed on, bepissed on and beshit on. 1714, Ode, to Music. On the Longitude, Jonathan Swift:
(figuratively, transitive, vulgar) To soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.
- Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead. 2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side:

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
beshit	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
beshit	Tense=Past		lexicographic
beshite		alternative	lexicographic
beshits	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
beshitting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
beshat	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
beshat	Tense=Past		lexicographic