shitless

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ -less. Compare scare the shit out of.

Adjective

shitless (not comparable)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Having an empty bowel; greatly frightened; see usage notes below.
    The movie The Ring scared me shitless as a child.

Usage notes

  • This term is primarily found in the verb phrase scare shitless (“to frighten (a person) to the point that he vacates his bowels”) and its participial adjective scared shitless (“frightened to the point that one has vacated one's bowels”). It may be considered a more evocative variant of certain uses of witless and speechless.

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