different between shite vs snite

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sh?t, IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From the Middle English shite, schite, sc?te (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German sch?te, Middle High German sch?ze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English s?itel. More at shit.

Noun

shite (plural shites)

1. (Britain, Ireland, vulgar) Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense

   That’s a load of shite.

   Look at all this shite.

2. (Britain, Ireland, vulgar, derogatory) A foolish or deceitful person.

   He's a useless shite.

Derived terms

• gobshite
• talk shite
• load of shite

Adjective

shite (comparative more shite, superlative most shite)

1. (Britain, Ireland, vulgar) Bad; awful; shit.

   The film was shite.

Interjection

shite

1. (Britain, Ireland, vulgar) An expression of annoyance or dismay.

   Shite! I left my wallet at home.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schiten, from Old English s??tan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *sk?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sk?tan? (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?eyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).

Verb

shite (third-person singular simple present shites, present participle shiting, simple past shited or shit or shat, past participle shited or shitten)

1. (Britain, chiefly Scotland, Ireland, vulgar) To defecate.
   • 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies (page 38)

     […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.

   • 2007, Talonie Starr, Growth Manifesto (page 173)

     He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:defecate

Related terms

• shitten

Anagrams

• Heist, Heits, Hites, Sethi, Thiès, heist, ithes, seith, sithe

Japanese

Romanization

shite

1. R?maji transcription of ??

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

snite (plural snites)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English sniten, from Old English sn?tan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?tijan? (“to blow the nose”). Cognate with Old Norse snýta (“to blow the nose”), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

Alternative forms

• snet

Verb

snite (third-person singular simple present snites, present participle sniting, simple past and past participle snited)

1. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose)
2. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to snuff (a candle)

References

• Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words - pg. 199

References

• snite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Stein, Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, stein, tines, tsine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??n???t??]

Verb

snite

1. past participle of snigh (“pour (down), flow, course; filter through, percolate; glide, crawl”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "snite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Etymology

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Verb

snite

1. to appear or show oneself

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN