# Words for sh\*t **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 7, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672 "2003-08-07T21:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/1 "2003-08-07T21:41:40Z")
Ever since hearing the story about Inuit having many words for snow, I was sure that English had more words for shit. Here is a list compiled so far myself, please add any that I have missed Scientific / Medical excretia excrement stool diarrhea feces runs squirts Childish ka-ka poo poo-poo jobbies doo-doo Horticultural / Animal manure ordure spoor dung guano dropping patty ( cow ) pat ( cow ) cake ( cow ) muck ( cow ) casts ( worm ) Old / Literature feculence Rude shit crap shite shat turd cack That is 30 so far, but I am sure we can get to a list of over 40 with you geniuses to help me. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/2 "2003-08-07T21:47:39Z")
movement BM dump drop kids off at the pool pinch a loaf ---
**Author:** ![hayleyavon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb9ed0/32.png) [@hayleyavon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hayleyavon)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/3 "2003-08-07T21:48:29Z")
Well in the “Childish” category youve forgotten “poopie”…And thats all I can think of. Nice list though. ---
**Author:** ![Alto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Alto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alto)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/4 "2003-08-07T21:55:19Z")
scat poop ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/5 "2003-08-07T22:19:44Z")
Thanks, that adds movement dump poopie scat poop (I don’t think composite phraises like number 2 or pinch a loaf, should be included) 35 and running ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/6 "2003-08-07T22:30:37Z")
growing a tail… growler… Baby Ruth… bombing run… launching torpedoes… **40** ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/7 "2003-08-07T22:39:57Z")
Ohhhh! Dysentery! ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/8 "2003-08-07T22:43:38Z")
When my nephew was a baby, the predominant term was “poo-tinky”. ---
**Author:** ![Peach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@Peach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/9 "2003-08-07T22:49:13Z")
lol-why does the word ‘movement’ crack me up? cats make tootsie rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/10 "2003-08-07T22:54:29Z")
Sorry **Rex** can only take “growler” the others are phraises. Can Dysentery be used to discribe the evacuated substance? or is it only the name of the disease? “poo-tinky” is another fine childish form. 37 or 38 Depending on Dysentery. [Dictionary.com](http://Dictionary.com) seems to say Dysentery is the disease and not the excretia caused by the disease, unlike diarrhea which can mean both. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/11 "2003-08-07T23:05:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*Ever since hearing the story about Inuit having many words for snow, I was sure that English had more words for shit. > \*\* For a discussion of Yup’ik lexemes for snow, see: [http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html](http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/%7Eatman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html) ---
**Author:** ![Peach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@Peach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/12 "2003-08-07T23:09:12Z")
another animal term- pellets! ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/13 "2003-08-07T23:13:59Z")
(cow) plop ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Simple\_Dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Dreamer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/14 "2003-08-07T23:19:01Z")
nuggets ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/15 "2003-08-07T23:53:18Z")
(Hawaiian) ku-kai ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/16 "2003-08-08T00:30:58Z")
[dysentery](http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact108.html) > [@](#): > > Dysentery may be simply defined as diarrhoea containing blood That’s what I looked at to check spelling. I assumed it meant the excrement, as in, “Hey! Who stepped in the dysentery and tracked it all over tha place!” ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/17 "2003-08-08T00:51:47Z")
So now we have pellets plop nuggets and dysentery is confirmed. 41 so far Sorry **Roadwalker** can’t take ku-kai for my list as this is how many English words for shit are there? Unless you claim that it has entered the English language in Hawaii, do English only speakers in Hawaii use the term ku-kai? I’d like to ditch patty and cake, as they don’t stand up as single words to being understood to mean dung. Pat, plop, and muck I think can stand on their own merits. Does anyone know if worm casts are really worm excreta, or if they are just displaced earth that hasn’t traveled through the worm? Any people into Anal sex have terms for shit, as I suspect it may turn up in awkward places during a heavy session, and is likely to attract euphemisms? ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/18 "2003-08-08T02:26:30Z")
Scat. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/19 "2003-08-08T02:45:30Z")
A case of the “trots” As in “Where did Joe go in such a hurry?” “Bathroom…He’s got a case of the trots.” ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672/20 "2003-08-08T03:15:58Z")
Defecate? Fudge? Log? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-for-sh-t/193672.md?page=2)