In general the toilets run swift here and the shit disappears long before you can leap up and turn around to admire it.
1980, K. J. Dover, Greeks, page 38:
We might pick on his revelation of what Greek warfare was like... Blood and shit and pus are the same..in all ages.
1967, Phillip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, page 47:
Trying to clear my feet of my undershorts before anybody can peek inside, where..I always discover in the bottommost seam a pale and wispy brushstroke of my shit.
A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men
1922 September 27, E. M. Forster, Letter to Syed Ross Masood, quoted in P. N. Furbank, E.M. Forster: A Life (1978), page 106:
I think that most Indians, like most English people, are shits, and I am not interested whether they sympathize with one another or not.
Diarrhea
a.1387, John Trevisa, Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden,[1] 7.51:
Tweie pestilencis..fil in Engelond..Men had þe feveres and bestes þe schyt.
1970, Robert Grover with Martin T. Willaims and Nat Hentoff, Evergreen Review:
They can make life here more shit than it already is.
2004, Liam Bracken, Exit Only:
The new guys are some of the most shit mechanics I've ever—”
Nasty, despicable
a. 1961, Ernest Hemingway with A. E. Hotchner, edited by Albert J DeFazio, III, Dear Papa, dear Hotch: the correspondence of Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner, published 2005, page 225:
And you surely know. Please give Bum my regards. I liked him a lot + I'm sorry as hell he's having such a shit time.
2002, Patricia Cornelius, My sister Jill:
She knows that we are no more shit than anyone else.
2006, Derec Jones, The Three Bears, page 191:
I say, and smile at her with the most benevolent older, wiser expression I can get together considering that I'm probably feeling more shit than she is.
2006, Jonathan Stanland, The Bible of Badness, page 82:
They feel unworthy, don't trust people […], and generally can have a very shit time
2009, Thomas Leveritt, The Exchange-Rate Between Love and Money, page 313:
And clearly having a very shit time with guys.
2009, Karen Smith, Desert Rose, page 154:
it made me feel like there were still good decent people here and after a very shit day this small gesture simply made up for it.
1668, Francis Kirkman with Richard Head, The English Rogue[2], page 119:
When we wrought upon scaffolds in the street it was a great pleasure to me to throw the morter upon the heads of young wenches as they passed by; and at other times with our whiting to bespatter Gentlemens Cloaks as they walked under us, that they looked as if the Crow had shit upon them
1760, Thomas Brown, “Advice to Dr. Oates”, in Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse[3], page 243:
What need you care, Sir, whose dunghill you shit on!
1878, “41 Victoria”, in Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada[4], volume 11, page 109:
He said: “You God damned son of a bitch, do you want me to shit in a man’s house.” I got another person, who was in an adjoining apartment separated by a blanket partition, to get a bucket.
1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" — A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:
Yesterday on the way up, a man started to yell at the driver because he had a new suit on and a woman with a chicken had sat so close to him that the chicken shit on his suit.
