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shittify en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈʃɪtɪfaɪ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From shit + -ify.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, vulgar) To make shitty.
    • The BACAT (Bay Area Center for Art and Technology) Collective, who put this out, gain an added dimension with their invitations to reader input and focus on the global networks and manipulations behind the shittifying of proletarian lifestyle (written by people who've actually left California and gone somewhere besides New York). 1994 February, Maximum Rocknroll, number 129, Berkeley, C.A.: Maximum Rocknroll, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 117:
    • They will use whatever leverage they have in whatever deal gets made to force the technology company to shittify the technology to protect their traditional business models. 2011 March 28, Gheerax IV, “Hollywood Makeover for YouTube”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
    • This is what Rockhead doesn't get: you don't have to shittify your music to make people listen to it. If it's good, people will listen. Period. 2014, Jessie Ann Foley, The Carnival at Bray: A Novel, Ashford, C.T.: Elephant Rock Books, →ISBN, page 54:
    • Just because the PS2 takes great PC games and shittifies them into half-assed ports like Half-Life and Star Trek Voyager and the rest of that awful PS2PC dreck doesn't mean the same has to apply to the Xbox's one and only PC port. Don't cry. 2002 February 27, Zackman, “XPox smelling like Dreamcast ...”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
shittified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shittified Tense=Past lexicographic
shittifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shitify alternative lexicographic
shittifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

goodify

Deriveds

deshittify

Relateds

enshittify · shittiness · shit up · shittification

Synonyms

shitten