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shitten, a.|ˈʃɪt(ə)n|
[pa. pple. of shit v.]
a. Defiled with excrement.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 504 And shame it is, if a prest take keepe A shiten [v.rr. schetyn, schiten] shepherde and a clene sheepe. 1557Welth & Helth B iij b, I ran my way and let hym syt Smoke and shitten arse together. 1575Gamm. Gurton ii. ii. 1 Fy, shytten knaue! and out vpon thee! 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xv. (1737) 58 A shitten Clout. 1738Swift Pol. Conversat. Wks. VI. 276 Why, Miss, you shine this Morning like a sh― Barn-Door. 1750Birth, etc. John Franks 18 He came crying into the parlour in his shitten condition,..complaining..that he had beshit himself, and Mary Dover would not clean him.
Comb.a1500Chester Plays, Innocents 157 A vyllany it were, I-wisse for my fellow and me, to slay a shitten-arsed shrew. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. ix. 36 A little shitten-ars'd Girl.
b. transf. and fig. Disgusting, contemptible.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 48 b, As though to be a kynge were a farre vyler..offyce, than to be a pylde shytten nonne. 1592Nashe Strange News H 2, Thou grosse shifter for shitten tapsterly iests. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. cxxxiii. On Famous Voy., And all his followers, that..in so shitten sort, so long had vs'd him. 1656Choyce Drollery 34 'Twas shitten luck to perish so. 1702Mouse grown a Rat 24 You and I are in a shitten Condition. 1846Swell's Night Guide 49 Which of us had hold of the crappy (sh-ten) end of the stick? 1931[see lord n. 12 d].
Hence † ˈshittenly adv.
1598Florio, Cacatamente,..shittenly. |