scatalogical slang (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, I've heard "shitload of .." for years. Your cite is the first
that I've heard of "shitpot" in any meaning.

-Wilson

On 2/11/08, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> Shitpot:
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> OED has:
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>  1937 PARTRIDGE Dict. Slang 758/2 Sh**-pot, a thorough or worthless
> humbug (person); a sneak. 1971 B. MALAMUD Tenants 132 Lesser, don't
> think you so hot, You got the look of a shit-pot.
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> I'm mostly familiar with the word as meaning "a lot of" -- "He spent a
> shitpot of money on a new car".  Many of the Google books cites use it
> similarly.
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> Edward J. Kempf _Psychopathology_ St. Louis:  C.V. Mosby, 1920 p. 676
> "He said the "boys call me chicken and kid me about cornholing me
> (sodomy) and they call me shitpot." "
>
> [OED has no entry for "cornhole", but the term appears in a 1992 cite
> under "ninety".]
>
> "shit for brains"
>
> OED has:
> 1971 W. MARES Marine Machine 26 Get over here, shitforbrains!
>
> David Anthony, _A Multitude of Men_ Simon & Schuster, 1959 p. 325
> "I should care if some sloppy shit-for-brains bricklayer don't know his
> ass from
> his elbow? "
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