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Sitten vs Shitten - What's the difference?

sitten | shitten |

As verbs the difference between sitten and shitten

is that sitten is past participle of lang=en; alternative form of nocap=1 lang=en while shitten is past participle of shit.

As adjectives the difference between sitten and shitten

is that sitten is seated while shitten is of or pertaining to excrement.

sitten

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(head)
  • *1810 , Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church :
    • For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Seated.
  • *a1513 , W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155 :
    • The tail?eour was no thing weill sittin , He left the sadill.
  • *c1560 , A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38 :
    • He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.
  • Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
  • *1671 , J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15 :
    • Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten -up professours.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    shitten

    English

    Alternative forms

    * shiten

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Of or pertaining to excrement.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "shitten") English irregular past participles