scatalogical slang (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:23 PM -0500 2/11/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
>FWIW, I've heard "shitload of .." for years. Your cite is the first
>that I've heard of "shitpot" in any meaning.
>
>-Wilson

Ditto, unless you count the version with "or get off the" between the
"shit" and the "pot".

LH

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>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".]
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>>  "shit for brains"
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>>  OED has:
>>  1971 W. MARES Marine Machine 26 Get over here, shitforbrains!
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>>  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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