shitting

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English schitinge, schytynge (“defecation”), whence modern English shiting.

I would have cleft her watergap, And join’d it close to my flipflap, Whilst she had with her fingers guarded My foul nockandrow, all bemerded In shitting. — Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
“May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying, in working, in resting, in pissing, in shitting, and in blood-letting! — The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman, Laurence Sterne

defecation, laxation

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