beshite

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From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (to befoul), from Proto-West Germanic *biskītan, equivalent to be- +‎ shite. Cognate with Scots beschite, German bescheißen, Danish beskide (to beshit).

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beshite (third-person singular simple present beshites, present participle beshiting, simple past beshit or beshote or beshat, past participle beshitten)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.
    • 1856, John Skelton, Alexander Dyce, The Poetical Works of John Skelton:
      At last Skelton awaked, & felt the sheetes all wete; waked his wife, and sayd, What, hast thou beshitten the bed?

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