shitten

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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shitten

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

Adjective

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shitten (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Covered with or stained by excrement
  2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement
  3. (by extension) disgusting; contemptible.
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Etymology 2

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From shit +‎ -en.

Verb

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shitten (third-person singular simple present shittens, present participle shittening, simple past and past participle shittened)

  1. (transitive) To soil with shit; make shitty.
    • 2019, Sharon Olds, Arias, page 66:
      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, []