scheiße
English
Noun
scheiße (uncountable)
- Alternative form of scheisse
- 2001 February 5, Rocky Frisco, “Re: Front of Rear Wheel Drive?”, in alt.autos.mini (Usenet):
- With all due respect for your opinion, your comment above is chock full of scheiße, which is, by the way, not the German word for cheese.
- 2002 February 14, rktectcdm, “Re: Soka in Architecture magazine”, in alt.architecture (Usenet):
- You mean I spent a couple hours reading about this piece-of-scheiße campus and then writing about it, and NOBODY has anything to say?
- 2004 July 6, Rodger, “Re: Islamofascists: "Krag 'em and bag 'em."”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
- Well, you just made this same argument you Zionist piece of scheiße!!
Danish
German
Alternative forms
- scheisse (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
- sch**ße, sch**sse (censored)
- sch***e, sch****e (censored)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃaɪ̯sə/
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
The adjective comes from predicative use of the noun, while the adverb is from its interjective use, e.g.: Scheiße, bin ich besoffen! → Er ist scheißbesoffen. (“He's completely plastered.”)
Adjective
scheiße (indeclinable, predicative only)
- (colloquial, vulgar) shit, bad, ill, poor
- Synonyms: beschissen, mies, übel, armselig
- 1996, “Ich find' dich scheiße”, in Tic Tac Toe, performed by Tic Tac Toe:
- Du denkst du bist was ganz besonderes / Jede würde mit dir gehn / So hip, so geil, der Allercoolste auf der Welt / Und du ziehst 'ne Riesenshow ab nur für uns mit deinem Geld / Ich find' dich scheiße / So richtig scheiße
- ... I find you shit / Really shit
- (slang, vulgar) shitty, fucking bad
- Synonyms: beschissen, miserabel, grottenschlecht
- Ich fühle mich scheiße.
- I'm feeling shitty.
- Du tanzt scheiße. (as adverb)
- You dance shittily.
Usage notes
- The standard form would be beschissen (“crappy”), comparable and declinable. The term scheiße in this usage is adopted from youth language.
- scheiß- is not an adverb but a prefix. Note that there are also combinations with scheiße-.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
scheiße
- inflection of scheißen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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