shit definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: obscene terms for feces [syn: crap, dirt, shit, shite, poop, turd]
2: obscene words for unacceptable behavior; "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull" [syn: bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit]
3: a small worthless amount; "you don't know jack" [syn: jack, doodly-squat, diddly-squat, diddlysquat, diddly-shit, diddlyshit, diddly, diddley, squat, shit]
4: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: shit, dump]
5: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB]
6: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v
1: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
2: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English *shit, from Old English scite; akin to Old English -sc?tan to defecate Date: circa 1526 1. usually vulgar feces 2. usually vulgar an act of defecation 3. usually vulgar nonsense, crap 4. usually vulgar any of several intoxicating or narcotic drugs; especially heroin 5. usually vulgar damn 2 6. usually vulgar a worthless, offensive, or detestable person 7. usually vulgar a. — used as an interjection b. — used as an intensive usually with the • shitty adjective, usually vulgar II. verb (shit or shat; shitting) Etymology: alteration of earlier shite, from Middle English shiten, from Old English -sc?tan; akin to Old High German sc?zan to defecate and probably to Old English sc?adan to separate — more at shed Date: 14th century intransitive verb usually vulgar defecate transitive verb 1. usually vulgar to defecate in 2. usually vulgar to attempt to deceive ; bullshit

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v., n., & int. coarse sl. Usage: Usually considered a taboo word. --v. (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit) intr. & tr. expel faeces from the body or cause (faeces etc.) to be expelled. --n. 1 faeces. 2 an act of defecating. 3 a contemptible or worthless person or thing. 4 nonsense. 5 an intoxicating drug, esp. cannabis. --int. an exclamation of disgust, anger, etc. Etymology: OE scitan (unrecorded) f. Gmc

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shits, shitting, shat) 1. Some people use shit to refer to solid waste matter from the body of a human being or animal. (INFORMAL, RUDE) 2. To shit means to get rid of solid waste matter from the body. (INFORMAL, RUDE) VERB: V 3. To have a shit means to get rid of solid waste matter from the body. (INFORMAL, RUDE) N-SING 4. If someone has the shits, liquid waste matter keeps coming out of their body because they are ill or afraid. (INFORMAL, RUDE) N-PLURAL: the N 5. People sometimes refer to things that they do not like as shit. (INFORMAL, RUDE) This is a load of shit. [disapproval] 6. People sometimes insult someone they do not like by referring to them as a shit. (INFORMAL, RUDE) N-COUNT [disapproval] 7. Shit is used to express anger, impatience, or disgust. (INFORMAL, RUDE) EXCLAM 8. To beat or kick the shit out of someone means to beat or kick them so violently that they are badly injured. (INFORMAL, RUDE) PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis] 9. If someone says that the shit hit the fan, they mean that there was suddenly a lot of trouble or angry arguments. (INFORMAL, RUDE) PHRASE: V inflects 10. If someone says that they do not give a shit about something, they mean that they do not care about it at all. (INFORMAL, RUDE) PHRASE: V inflects, usu with brd-neg [feelings]

Moby Thesaurus

Amytal, Amytal pill, BM, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, SOB, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, asshole, bagatelle, baloney, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bastard, bauble, bean, bibelot, bilge, bit, black stuff, blah, blah-blah, bloody flux, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bop, bosh, bowel movement, brass farthing, buffalo chips, bugger, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, button, ca-ca, calmative, catharsis, cent, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, creep, cur, curio, defecate, defecation, dejection, depressant, depressor, diarrhea, dingleberry, dog, dolly, downer, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuate, evacuation, farce, fart, farthing, feather, feces, feculence, fig, flapdoodle, fleabite, flux, folderol, fribble, frippery, gas, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, goofball, guano, guff, gup, hair, halfpenny, hard stuff, heel, heroin, hill of beans, hogwash, hokum, hood, hooey, hooligan, hop, horse, hot air, hypnotic, jakes, jerk, jest, joke, junk, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knockout drops, laudanum, lientery, liquor, loose bowels, lotus, louse, malarkey, manure, meanie, meperidine, methadone, minikin, mockery, molehill, moonshine, morphia, morphine, mother, movement, narcotic, night soil, number two, opiate, opium, ordure, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, peppercorn, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, picayune, piffle, pill, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, poppycock, prick, purgation, purge, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, rap, rat, red, red cent, rot, row of pins, rubbish, runs, rush, scag, scat, scum, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sewage, sewerage, shithead, shitheel, shits, skunk, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, snake, snap, sneeshing, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, sou, stinkard, stinker, stool, straw, take a shit, tar, toad, tommyrot, toy, tranquilizer, trifle, trinket, tripe, triviality, trots, tuppence, turd, turistas, turps, two cents, twopence, void, voidance, whim-wham, white stuff, wind, yellow, yellow jacket