Shiftest vs Shittest - What's the difference?
shiftest | shittest |
(archaic) (shift)
To change, swap.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
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, title= To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To change position.
(obsolete) To change (one's clothes); also to change (someone's) underclothes.
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* Shakespeare
To change gears (in a car).
(typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
(computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
(computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
(computing) To remove the first value from an array.
To dispose of.
To hurry.
(Ireland, vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual petting.
To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
* L'Estrange
To practice indirect or evasive methods.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(historical) a type of women's undergarment, a slip
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* 1919 ,
a change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time
an act of shifting; a slight movement or change
* Sir H. Wotton
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.}}
(US) the gear mechanism in a motor vehicle
(computing) a bit shift
(baseball) The infield shift.
The act of sexual petting.
(archaic) A contrivance, device to try when other methods fail
* 1596 , Shakespeare, History of King John
(archaic) a trick, an artifice
* 1593 , Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
* Macaulay
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
(mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
(shit)
(uncountable, colloquial, vulgar) Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
* 2011 , "Cholera and the super-loo", The Economist , 30 Jul 2011:
(countable, colloquial, vulgar, in the plural, definite) (the shits ) diarrhea.
(countable, colloquial, vulgar) An instance of defecation.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Stuff, things.
(uncountable, colloquial, vulgar, definite) (the shit ) The best of its kind.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Nonsense; bullshit.
(countable, vulgar, colloquial) A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) (in negations ) Anything.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A problem or difficult situation.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) A strong rebuke.
(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) any recreational drug, usually cannabis.
(vulgar, colloquial) Of poor quality; worthless.
(vulgar, colloquial) Nasty; despicable.
(intransitive, vulgar, colloquial) To defecate.
(transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To excrete (something) through the anus.
(transitive, vulgar, colloquial) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
(transitive, vulgar, colloquial, Australia) To annoy.
(vulgar) Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
(vulgar) To show displeasure or surprise.
As a verb shiftest
is (archaic) (shift).As an adjective shittest is
(shit).shiftest
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Verb
(head)shift
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(wikipedia shift)Verb
(en verb)The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.}}
- 'Tis very good to wash his hands and face often, to shift his clothes, to have fair linen about him, to be decently and comely attired […].
- As it were to ride day and night; andnot to have patience to shift me.
- Men in distress will look to themselves, and leave their companions to shift as well as they can.
- All those schoolmen, though they were exceeding witty, yet better teach all their followers to shift , than to resolve by their distinctions.
Noun
(en noun)- Just last week she bought a new shift at the market.
- No; without a gown, in a shift that was somewhat of the coarsest, and none of the cleanest, bedewed likewise with some odoriferous effluvia, the produce of the day's labour, with a pitchfork in her hand, Molly Seagrim approached.
- Some wear black shifts and flesh-coloured stockings; some with curly hair, dyed yellow, are dressed like little girls in short muslin frocks.
- We'll work three shifts a day till the job's done.
- My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air.
- There was a shift in the political atmosphere.
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- Does it come with a stick-shift ?
- If you press shift -P, the preview display will change.
- Teams often use the shift against this lefty.
- If I get down, and do not break my limbs,
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:
- As good to die and go, as die and stay.
- And if the boy have not a woman's gift
- To rain a shower of commanded tears,
- An onion will do well for such a shift
- Reduced to pitiable shifts .
- I'll find a thousand shifts to get away.
- Little souls on little shifts rely.
Derived terms
* blueshift * day shift * graveyard shift * make shift * night shift * preshift * shift break * shiftwork, shift work * split shift * swing shift * stickshift * redshift * (French kissing) get the shiftshittest
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
*shit
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(wikipedia shit)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Compare shite.Noun
(en-noun)- The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers. [...] In tackling the shit problem, economics could well be a clincher.
- He had the shits for three days.
- Can't a guy take a shit in peace?
- Throw that shit out!
- I want your shit out of my garage by tomorrow.
- These grapes are the shit !
- Everything he says is a load of shit .
- Her son has been a real shit to her.
- His opinion is not worth shit . = His opinion is not worth anything.
- We don’t have shit to live on. = We don’t have anything to live on.
- John can't sing for shit . = John can't sing for anything. = John can't sing at all.
- I'm in some serious shit .
- Some shit went down at the nightclub last night .
- I gave him shit for being three hours late twice in one week.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "shit")Synonyms
* (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels) crap, dirt, dung, excrement, fecal matter, feces, ordure, poop, shite, scat, stool, turd * See also , , .Derived terms
* apeshit * batshit * bearshit * birdshit * bullshit * catshit * chickenshit * cowshit * dipped in shit * dogshit * donkeyshit * don't shit where you eat * dumbshit * full of shit * give a shit * give someone the shits * give someone shit * goat shit * good shit * happy as a pig in shit * have a shit * horseshit * jack shit * like shit * pack shit * piece of shit * pigshit * pile of shit * ratshit * rocking horse shit * rocking-horse shit * sheepshit * shitbag * shitbird * shitcan * shiteater * shitfaced * shit happens * shit heel * shithole * shit factory * shit fit * shit-for-brains * shithead * shithouse * shitless * shitload * Shitmas * shitpile * shits * shit sandwich * shit soup * shit stain * shitstorm * shitting * shitty * shoot the shit * take a shit * the shit * the shits * tough shit * whaleshit * wormshitAdjective
(en-adj)- What a shit film that was!
- That was a shit thing to do to him.
Derived terms
* shit hot * shittasticQuotations
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) shiten, from (etyl) ). More at (l).Verb
- Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
- That ad shits me to tears.
Quotations
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* (defecate) see also * (try to fool) shit withDerived terms
* don't shit where you eat * shit a brick * shit oneself * shit or get off the pot * shitter * shit the bed * shitton * think one's shit doesn't stinkInterjection
(en interjection)- Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
- Holy shit !
- Oh, shit !
- "Oh, shit . I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.