shitten

adj, verb — 4 senses

shitten

adj

/ˈʃɪtən/

1

Archaic Covered with or stained by excrement

2

Archaic Of or pertaining to excrement

3

Broadly disgusting; contemptible.

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

shitten

verb

Etymology From shit + -en.

1

To soil with shit; make shitty.

  • 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, […]2019, Sharon Olds, Arias, page 66:

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