SHIT (shat, shitted, shitting)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shit mean? 

• SHIT (noun)
  The noun SHIT has 6 senses:

1. obscene terms for feces
2. obscene words for unacceptable behavior
3. a small worthless amount
4. a coarse term for defecation
5. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
6. something of little value

  Familiarity information: SHIT used as a noun is common.

• SHIT (verb)
  The verb SHIT has 2 senses:

1. give away information about somebody
2. have a bowel movement

  Familiarity information: SHIT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHIT (noun)

Meaning:

Obscene terms for feces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

turd; shite; shit; poop; crap; dirt

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Meaning:

Obscene words for unacceptable behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Irish bull; horseshit; dogshit; bullshit; crap; shit; bull

Context examples:

I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk / what he said was mostly bull

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

buncombe; bunk; bunkum; guff; hogwash; rot (unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements))

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Meaning:

A small worthless amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

jack; doodly-squat; diddlysquat; diddlyshit; diddly-squat; diddly-shit; diddly; diddley; squat; shit

Context example:

you don't know jack

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

small indefinite amount; small indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude)

Meaning:

A coarse term for defecation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

dump; shit

Context example:

he took a shit

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

defecation; laxation; shitting (the elimination of fecal waste through the anus)

Meaning:

Insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

son of a bitch; prick; motherfucker; mother fucker; dickhead; bastard; asshole; whoreson; SOB; cocksucker; shit

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Domain usage:

dirty word; filth; obscenity; smut; vulgarism (an offensive or indecent word or phrase)

Meaning:

Something of little value

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

damn; tinker's damn; tinker's dam; shucks; red cent; darn; hoot; shit

Context examples:

his promise is not worth a damn / not worth one red cent / not worth shucks

Hypernyms ("shit" is a kind of...):

ineptitude; worthlessness (having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful)

• SHIT (verb)

Meaning:

Give away information about somebody

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

tell on; shit; stag; snitch; shop; give away; denounce; betray; grass; rat

Context example:

He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam

Hypernyms (to "shit" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shit"):

sell out (give information that compromises others)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

Meaning:

Have a bowel movement

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

take a shit; defecate; crap; ca-ca; take a crap; shit; stool; make

Context example:

The dog had made in the flower beds

Hypernyms (to "shit" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shit"):

dung (defecate; used of animals)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s