Shiftier vs Shitier - What's the difference?
shiftier | shitier |
(shifty)
Having the appearance of someone dishonest, criminal or unreliable; such as someone with shifty eyes .
Subject to frequent changes in direction.
* 1971 , Henry Handel Richardson, Ultima Thule (page 121)
Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.
* Charles Kingsley
(shitey)
(British, vulgar, slang) Shitty, worthless.
* 2001 , Laura Hird, Born Free
* 2008 , John Richmond, The Birds Call Me Seb
As adjectives the difference between shiftier and shitier
is that shiftier is (shifty) while shitier is (shitey).shiftier
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(head)shifty
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(er)- He was a shifty character in a seedy bar and I checked my wallet was still there after talking to him.
- Off he raced, shuffling his bare feet through the hot, dry, shifty sand. But it was no good: she didn't care.
- (Wright)
- Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.
shitier
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*shitey
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(er)- That's if the combined smell of minging socks, shitey trainers and a thousand farts clinging to the wallpaper doesn't put them off coming in here.
- You know one of those wee shitey dogs that just yaps and yaps.