shitten

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɪtən/
• Rhymes: -ɪtən

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• shiten

Verb

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

shitten (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Covered with or stained by excrement
2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement
3. (by extension) disgusting; contemptible.
   • c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Little French Lawyer”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene iii:

     Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shitten.

Etymology 2

From shit +‎ -en.

Verb

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, […]