Shitless vs Bitter - What's the difference?
shitless | bitter |
(vulgar) Having an empty bowel; greatly frightened; (see usage notes below).
:He was scared shitless .
Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
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*:Long after his cigar burnt bitter , he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped?; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth.
Harsh, piercing or stinging.
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*1999 , (Neil Gaiman), Stardust , p.31 (Perennial paperback edition)
*:It was at the end of February,.
Hateful or hostile.
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*(Bible), (w) iii. 19
*:Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Cynical and resentful.
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(usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
* 1773 , Oliver Goldsmith,
A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
(nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
As adjectives the difference between shitless and bitter
is that shitless is (vulgar) having an empty bowel; greatly frightened; (see usage notes below) while bitter is having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).As a noun bitter is
(usually in the plural bitters) a liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.As a verb bitter is
to make bitter.shitless
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Adjective
(-)Usage notes
* This term is primarily found in the verb phrase . It may be considered a more evocative variant of certain uses of (witless) and (speechless).See also
* spitless (euphemism) * witlessbitter
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Adjective
(en-adj)Usage notes
* The one-word comparative form (bitterer) and superlative form (bitterest) exist, but are less common than their two-word counterparts (term) and (term).Derived terms
* bitter pill to swallowSee also
* bitter endAntonyms
* (cynical and resentful) optimisticSynonyms
* (cynical and resentful) jadedNoun
(en noun)- Thus I begin: "All is not gold that glitters,
- "Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters .