The boat they left was stunk up and beshat with pigs and chickens and that comrade we buried.—Ernest Hemingway, Islands In The Stream, 1970
Their horses were … beshat greenly across the hindquarters …—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, 2006
On Sunday we brought the cats over. En route, one threw up all over her carrier, and a second beshat herself.—Julie Powell, Julie and Julia, 2005
But, you see, a traumatized child as I was once, long ago, and one who recovers, as I did, has a wall between him and pain and despair, between himself and grief, between himself and beshitting himself.—Harold Brodkey, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 1994
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of beshit was
before the 12th century
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