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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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shit

/ʃɪt/ noun, adjective, verb, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of shite

Forms shits shitter shittest shitting shat shitted shitten s--t s**t s—t shite sheeyit sheeit sheit

  1. noun (countable, uncountable, colloquial, literally) Usually solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces. “The field is covered in shit.”
  2. noun (countable, informal, colloquial, literally) The act of shitting. “I need to take a shit.”
  3. noun (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter. “Throw that shit out!”
  4. noun (uncountable, colloquial) Stuff, things. “I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.”
  5. noun (uncountable, colloquial, slang, definite, US) (the shit) The best of its kind. “These grapes are the shit!”
  6. noun (uncountable, slang) Genitalia, especially male. “jerk one's shit”
  7. noun (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit. “Everything he says is a load of shit.”
  8. noun (countable, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men. “Her son has been a real shit to her.”
  9. adjective Of poor quality; worthless. “What a shit film that was!”
  10. adjective Nasty; despicable. “That was a shit thing to do to him.”
  11. verb (intransitive, literally) To defecate.
  12. verb (transitive, literally) To excrete (something) through the anus.
  13. verb (transitive, reflexive, literally) To defecate on; to soil through defecating. “I laughed so hard I shat myself.”
  14. verb (ambitransitive, slang) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
  15. verb (transitive) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. “Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?”
  16. verb (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) To annoy.
  17. interjection (slang, mildly vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term. “Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!”
  18. interjection (vulgar) Used to show displeasure or surprise. “"Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.”
  19. interjection (vulgar) Used for mere emphasis; heck, hey.
  20. proper noun A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.

Synonyms

boo-boo boom-boom BM bowel movement caca cack chocolate chocolate hot dog crap crud danna dejection dirt do do doo-doo doody dook dookie dooky droppings shite poop turd bullshit bull Irish bull horseshit dogshit jack doodly-squat

Etymology

From Middle English schit, schyt, from Old English *sċite (“dung”) and sċitte (“diarrhoea”), from Proto-West Germanic *skiti and *skittjā, from Proto-Germanic *skitiz, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyd- (“to split, divide, separate”).
Related to Saterland Frisian Skiete, West Frisian skyte, skyt, Dutch schijt, German Low German Schiet, German Scheiße, Danish skidt, Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk skit, Norwegian Bokmål skitt, Icelandic skítur. Compare shite. Doublet of scheisse.

From Middle English schiten, shiten, from Old English sċītan, from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skéydt, from *skeyd-, *skeh₁i-d (“to cut”) (compare *skey-).
Cognate with West Frisian skite, Low German schieten, Dutch schijten, German scheißen, Danish skide. More at shed.

From Persian شيت (šīt).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “shit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details