Shite

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From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte(“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel(“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit.

From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan(“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną(“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt-(“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten(“to shit”), German scheißen(“to shit”), Swedish skita(“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith(“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit(“to tear, separate”).

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shite (n.)

colloquial modern alternative spelling of shit (n.), attested by c. 1740, preserving the original vowel length of the Old English verb.