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English
Etymology
From Middle English bishiten, bischiten, from Old English besċītan (“to befoul”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskītan, equivalent to be- + shite. Cognate with Scots beschite, German bescheißen, Danish beskide (“to beshit”).
Verb
beshite (third-person singular simple present beshites, present participle beshiting, simple past beshit or beshote or beshat, past participle beshitten)
- (archaic, transitive) To shite all over; befoul with shitting; beshit.
1856, John Skelton, Alexander Dyce, The Poetical Works of John Skelton:At last Skelton awaked, & felt the sheetes all wete; waked his wife, and sayd, What, hast thou beshitten the bed?
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