beshit
transitive verb
be·shit
bi-ˈshit 
bē-
beshat
bi-ˈshat
bē-
or beshit; beshitting; beshits
usually vulgar
: to soil (someone or something) with excrement
The boat they left was stunk up and beshat with pigs and chickens and that comrade we buried.—
Ernest Hemingway, Islands In The Stream, 1970
Ernest Hemingway, Islands In The Stream, 1970Their horses were … beshat greenly across the hindquarters …—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, 2006
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, 2006On Sunday we brought the cats over. En route, one threw up all over her carrier, and a second beshat herself.—Julie Powell, Julie and Julia, 2005
Julie Powell, Julie and Julia, 2005But, you see, a traumatized child as I was once, long ago, and one who recovers, as I did, has a wall between him and pain and despair, between himself and grief, between himself and beshitting himself.—Harold Brodkey, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 1994
Harold Brodkey, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 1994Dictionary Entries Near beshit
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“Beshit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beshit. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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