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shitten en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃɪtən/

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Covered with or stained by excrement
  2. (archaic, not-comparable) Of or pertaining to excrement
  3. (broadly, not-comparable) 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 II, scene iii:

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shitten en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃɪtən/

Meanings

  1. (archaic, form-of, participle, past) past participle of shit
    form of shit
    • That any member refusing to clean the child when it has shitten or bawed (as the term may be), he shall forfeit sixpence. 2017, Peter Wright, A Brief History of The Men’s Rights Movement: From 1856 to the present:
    • Panurge has shitten himself for fear, and grabbed the cat thinking it was one of a horde of devils invading the ship. 1983, Carol Clark, The Vulgar Rabelais:
  2. (archaic, form-of, participle, past) past participle of shite
    form of shite

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shitten en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃɪtən/

Etymology

From shit + -en.

Meanings

  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:

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shittening Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic