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Shit can be an adjective, a verb, an interjection or a noun.

shit used as an adjective:

  1. Of poor quality; worthless.
    "What a shit film that was!"
  2. Nasty; despicable.
    "That was a shit thing to do to him."

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

shit used as a verb:

  1. To defecate.
  2. To excrete (something) through the anus.
  3. To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
    "Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?"
  4. To annoy.
    "That ad shits me to tears."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

shit used as an interjection:

  1. Expression of worry, failure, shock, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.
    "Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!"
  2. To show displeasure or surprise.
    ""Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble."

An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →

shit used as a noun:

  1. Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels.
  2. (the shits) diarrhea.
  3. Rubbish; worthless matter.
    "Move all of that shit out of your room!"
  4. Stuff, things.
  5. (the shit) The best of its kind.
  6. Nonsense; bullshit.
    "Everything he says is a load of shit."
  7. A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
    "Her son has been a real shit to her."
  8. (in negations) Anything.
    "His opinion is not worth shit. = His opinion is not worth anything."
  9. marijuana
  10. cocaine

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is shit?

As detailed above, 'shit' can be an adjective, a verb, an interjection or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adjective usage: What a shit film that was!
  2. Adjective usage: That was a shit thing to do to him.
  3. Verb usage: Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
  4. Verb usage: That ad shits me to tears.
  5. Interjection usage: Shit! I think that I forgot to pack my sleeping bag last night!
  6. Interjection usage: Holy shit!
  7. Interjection usage: Oh, shit!
  8. Interjection usage: "Oh, shit. I left my worksheet at home," she said to the language arts teacher, which got her in trouble.
  9. Noun usage: Move all of that shit out of your room!
  10. Noun usage: Everything he says is a load of shit.
  11. Noun usage: Her son has been a real shit to her.
  12. Noun usage: His opinion is not worth shit. = His opinion is not worth anything.
  13. Noun usage: We don’t have shit to live on. = We don’t have anything to live on.
  14. Noun usage: John can't sing for shit. = John can't sing for anything. = John can't sing at all.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of shit are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of shit, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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