Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shitten

/ˈʃɪtən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: shit-ten
IPA: /ˈʃɪtən/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

past participle of shit

Archaic

verb

past participle of shite

Archaic

adj

Covered with or stained by excrement

Archaic

adj

Of or pertaining to excrement

Archaic

adj

disgusting; contemptible.

verb

To soil with shit; make shitty.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Panurge has shitten himself for fear, and grabbed the cat thinking it was one of a horde of devils invading the ship."
"That any member refusing to clean the child when it has shitten or bawed (as the term may be), he shall forfeit sixpence."
"Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady."
"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, […]"

Etymology

From shit + -en.

Usage

Inflected Forms

shiten (alternative) shittens (present, singular) shittening (participle, present) shittened (participle, past) shittened (past)

Rhymes With

written britain bitten rewritten smitten briton britten mitten litten sitten twitten glitten

Questions

How do you pronounce shitten?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɪtən/.
What does shitten mean?: past participle of shit
Where does shitten come from?: From shit + -en.

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