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''Shit'' is an English word that is usually considered vulgar and profane in Modern English. As a noun it refers to fecal matter, and as a verb it means to defecate; in the plural ("the shits") it means diarrhea. ''Shite'' is also a common variant in British English and Irish English.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shite )〕 As a slang term, it has many meanings, including: nonsense, foolishness, something of little value or quality, trivial and usually boastful or inaccurate talk, or a contemptible person. It may also be used as an expression of annoyance, surprise, or anger. ==Etymology== The word is likely derived from Old English, having the nouns ''scite'' (dung, attested only in place names) and ''scitte'' (diarrhoea), and the verb ''scītan'' (to defecate, attested only in ''bescītan'', to cover with excrement); eventually it morphed into Middle English ''schītte'' (excrement), ''schyt'' (diarrhoea) and ''shiten'' (to defecate), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germanic tribes at the time of the Roman Empire. The word may be further traced to Proto-Germanic *''skit''-, and ultimately to Proto-Indo-European *''skheid''- "cut, separate", the same root believed to have become the word ''shed''. The word has several cognates in modern Germanic languages, such as German ''Scheiße'', Dutch ''schijt'', Swedish ''skit'', Icelandic ''skítur'', Norwegian ''skitt'' etc. Ancient Greek had 'skōr' (gen. 'skatos' hence 'scato-'), from Proto-Indo-European *''sker''-, which is likely unrelated. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「shit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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