Word Study
shit
OXFORD DICTIONARY
shit, v., n., & int. coarse sl.
Usage
Usually considered a taboo word.
--v. (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit) intr. & tr. expel faeces from the body or cause (faeces etc.) to be expelled.
--n.
1 faeces.
2 an act of defecating.
3 a contemptible or worthless person or thing.
4 nonsense.
5 an intoxicating drug, esp. cannabis.
--int. an exclamation of disgust, anger, etc.
--v. (shitting; past and past part. shitted or shit) intr. & tr. expel faeces from the body or cause (faeces etc.) to be expelled.
--n.
1 faeces.
2 an act of defecating.
3 a contemptible or worthless person or thing.
4 nonsense.
5 an intoxicating drug, esp. cannabis.
--int. an exclamation of disgust, anger, etc.
Etymology
OE scitan (unrecorded) f. Gmc
THESAURUS
shit
Amytal, Amytal pill, BM, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, SOB, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, asshole, bagatelle, baloney, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bastard, bauble, bean, bibelot, bilge, bit, black stuff, blah, blah-blah, bloody flux, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bop, bosh, bowel movement, brass farthing, buffalo chips, bugger, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, button, ca-ca, calmative, catharsis, cent, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, coprolite, coprolith, cow chips, cow flops, cow pats, crap, creep, cur, curio, defecate, defecation, dejection, depressant, depressor, diarrhea, dingleberry, dog, dolly, downer, droppings, dung, dysentery, evacuate, evacuation, farce, fart, farthing, feather, feces, feculence, fig, flapdoodle, fleabite, flux, folderol, fribble, frippery, gas, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, goofball, guano, guff, gup, hair, halfpenny, hard stuff, heel, heroin, hill of beans, hogwash, hokum, hood, hooey, hooligan, hop, horse, hot air, hypnotic, jakes, jerk, jest, joke, junk, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knockout drops, laudanum, lientery, liquor, loose bowels, lotus, louse, malarkey, manure, meanie, meperidine, methadone, minikin, mockery, molehill, moonshine, morphia, morphine, mother, movement, narcotic, night soil, number two, opiate, opium, ordure, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, peppercorn, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, picayune, piffle, pill, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, poppycock, prick, purgation, purge, purple heart, quietener, rainbow, rap, rat, red, red cent, rot, row of pins, rubbish, runs, rush, scag, scat, scum, secobarbital sodium, sedative, sewage, sewerage, shithead, shitheel, shits, skunk, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, snake, snap, sneeshing, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, sou, stinkard, stinker, stool, straw, take a shit, tar, toad, tommyrot, toy, tranquilizer, trifle, trinket, tripe, triviality, trots, tuppence, turd, turistas, turps, two cents, twopence, void, voidance, whim-wham, white stuff, wind, yellow, yellow jacketROGET THESAURUS
shit
Uncleanness
N uncleanness, impurity, immundity, immundicity, impurity, defilement, contamination, defoedation, soilure, soiliness, abomination, leaven, taint, tainture, fetor, decay, putrescence, putrefaction, corruption, mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo, slovenry, slovenliness, squalor, dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep, beast, dirt, filth, soil, slop, dust, cobweb, flue, smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff, sossle, sozzle, sordes, dregs, grounds, lees, argol, sediment, settlement heeltap, dross, drossiness, mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders, recrement, slag, scum, froth, hogwash, ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater, rinsings, cheeseparings, sweepings, offscourings, outscourings, off scum, caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff, scurf, scurfiness, exuviae, morphea, fur, furfur, dandruff, tartar, riffraff, vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch, mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh, spawn, offal, gurry, lientery, garbage, carrion, excreta, slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria, faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, shit, sewage, sewerage, muck, coprolite, guano, manure, compost, dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes, toilet, john, head, cess, cesspool, sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer, Cloacina, dust hole, sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption, slum, rookery, dirty, filthy, grimy, unclean, impure, soiled, not to be handled with kid gloves, dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky, thick, turbid, dreggy, slimy, mussy, slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly, unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed, uncombed, unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified, squalid, lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly, nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy, fetid, decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty, putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied, saprogenic, saprogenous, purulent, carious, peccant, fecal, feculent, stercoraceous, excrementitious, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous, gory, bloody, rotting, rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese, crapulous, gross, fimetarious, fimicolous, they that touch pitch will be defiled.Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.For further exploring for "shit" in Webster Dictionary Online