beshit
verbEtymology From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”). By surface analysis, be- + shit.
- He looked like one that had beshit the roast.1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood, page 89:
- ...So Ditton and Whiston may both be bepissed on And Whiston and Ditton may both be beshit on. Sing Ditton beshit on, and Whiston bepissed on. Sing Ditton and Whiston, and Whiston and Ditton, Beshit and bepissed on, bepissed on and beshit on.1714, Ode, to Music. On the Longitude, Jonathan Swift:
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- Your heart muſt needs be grip'd and full of ſtitches, And you may well thro' fear beſhit your breeches.1760, Thomas Brown, “Advice to Dr. Oates”, in Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse, page 243:
- He will beshit himself in a public place.2010, Howard Jacobson, The Making of Henry, →ISBN, page 12:
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Figuratively, Vulgar To soil; to spoil; to defile; to befoul.
- Man has an inexhaustible ability to beshit his environment, with politicians well in the lead.2003, Jim Harrison, Off to the Side:
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- bepiss