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Excrement vs Sheepshit - What's the difference?

excrement | sheepshit |

As nouns the difference between excrement and sheepshit

is that excrement is any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs while sheepshit is the excrement of a sheep.

excrement

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) Any waste matter excreted from the human or animal body, or discharged by bodily organs.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.97:
    • A French Gentleman was ever wont to blow his nose in his hand. He asked me on a time, what privilege this filthie excrement had, that wee should have a daintie linnen cloth or handkercher to receive the same.
  • Animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * excreta * excrete * excremental

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something which grows out of the body; hair, nails etc.
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    sheepshit

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (vulgar) The excrement of a sheep.
  • * 1996 , Ursula K Le Guin, Worlds of exile and illusion
    • And I am a green walnut, and you a fish, and those mountains are made of roasted sheepshit ! Have it your way. Speak the truth and hear the truth.
  • * 2002 , Joseph O'Neill, Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
    • He led me into a field bespattered with sheepshit . 'Here we are,' he said. 'Here's the old German camp.'
  • * 2004 , Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, Still Life with Crows
    • Whiskey over here, amigo. What's this you've been feeding us, Hoss, boiled sheepshit ?
  • * 2004 , Peter Temple, Identity Theory
    • A croft in the Welsh wilderness, wind never stops howling, natives slathered in sheepshit and woad, incomprehensible tongue, nasty secessionist tendencies.