shiteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: shīt, IPA: /ʃaɪt/
• 韻: -aɪt

語源 1

From the 中期英語 shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare 中期英語 shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from 古期英語 sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.

名詞

shite (usually uncountable, plural shites)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense

   That’s a load of shite.

   Look at all this shite.

2. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar, derogatory, uncommon) A foolish or deceitful person.

   He's a useless shite.

派生語

形容詞

shite (comparative shiter or more shite, superlative shitest or most shite)

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) Bad; awful; shit.

   That was a shite film.

間投詞

shite

1. (chiefly UK, Ireland, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or dismay.

   Shite! I left my wallet at home.

語源 2

From 中期英語 schiten, from 古期英語 sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).

動詞

shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past shited or shit or shat, past participle shited or shit or shat or shitten)

1. (UK, chiefly Scotland, Ireland, vulgar) To defecate.
   • 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies, page 38:

     […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.

   • 2007, Talonie Starr, Growth Manifesto, page 173:

     He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.

   • 2011, Douglas Bruster, Eric Rasmussen, Everyman and Mankind:

     I have eaten a dishful of curds,
     And I have shitten your mouth full of turds.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:defecate

関連する語

• shitten

アナグラム

• Thiès, shiet, Heits, Hites, sheit, Sethi, sithe, heist, seith, Thies, Heist