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shitting

nounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //ˈʃɪtɪŋ//

The act of defecating.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of defecating.

Etymology

From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English schitinge, schytynge (“defecation”), whence modern English shiting.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shitpresent participle and gerund of shit

Etymology

From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English shityng, shytyng (“defecating”), whence modern English shiting.

adjective

  1. 1

    An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it modifies; same as fucking.

Forms

plural
shittings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).