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Meaning of "shitwork" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SHITWORK

ˈʃɪtwɜːk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHITWORK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shitwork is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHITWORK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of shitwork in the English dictionary

The definition of shitwork in the dictionary is bad work; tedious, badly-paid work.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHITWORK

artwork · bodywork · clockwork · coursework · firework · framework · groundwork · homework · housework · needlework · network · paperwork · patchwork · rework · seatwork · teamwork · waxwork · wickerwork · woodwork · work

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHITWORK

shite · shitface · shitfaced · shithead · shithouse · shitless · shitlist · shitload · shits · shittah · shitted · shitter · shittest · shittily · Shittim · shittim wood · shittiness · shitting · shitty · shiur

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHITWORK

basketwork · brightwork · communications network · craftwork · crossover network · cutwork · ductwork · flatwork · footwork · fretwork · knotwork · local area network · neural network · out of work · outwork · paintwork · railway network · sensor network · shiftwork · wide area network · wireless sensor network

Synonyms and antonyms of shitwork in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shitwork» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SHITWORK

Find out the translation of shitwork to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of shitwork from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shitwork» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

shitwork
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

shitwork
570 millions of speakers
en

English

shitwork
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

shitwork
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

shitwork
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

shitwork
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

trabalho de merda
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

shitwork
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

shitwork
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Shitwork
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

shitwork
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

shitwork
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

shitwork
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Shitwork
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

shitwork
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

shitwork
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

थरकाप
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

shitwork
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

shitwork
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

shitwork
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

shitwork
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

shitwork
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

shitwork
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

shitwork
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shitwork
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shitwork
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shitwork

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHITWORK»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of shitwork
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shitwork

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHITWORK»

Discover the use of shitwork in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shitwork and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sexuality, the Female Gaze, and the Arts: Women, the Arts, ...
When Echo echoes back Narcissus's words in the forest, she is actually performing what Pamela Fishman has wryly but aptly dubbed the "conversational shitwork." In conversation, the role of the woman, according to Fishman, requires that ...
Ronald L. Dotterer, Susan Bowers, 1992
2
Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White ...
Male activists had an interest in keeping women within mixed groups, where they did what Marge Piercy (1970:424) called the "shitwork." Piercy argued that shitwork was denigrated within the New Left, but utterly essential for the movement's ...
Benita Roth, 2004
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Oxford Dictionary of English
ship. money. F. shitwork. ship money 7noun [mass noun] historical a tax raised in England in medieval times to provide ships for the navy. ship of the desert 7noun literary a camel. ship of the line 7noun historical a sailing warship of the largest ...
Angus Stevenson, 2010
4
Introducing Language in Use: A Course Book
... agreement (AJM/SAF/SEH) Signature and stamp (AJM/SPECS) Barrier Reef ( AJM/MUM) Good boy (M&M/M1/SA) Extract from Jaworski et al. (2004) (AJ/MK/SL /VYM/SS15/EX2 (modified)) Extract from Harris (1995: 127) (modified) 'Shitwork' ...
Andrew John Merrison, Aileen Bloomer, Patrick Griffiths, 2013
5
Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century
These researchers found, for example, that men interrupted women more often than the reverse (West and Zimmerman 1983) and that women performed most of the conversational "shitwork" in interactions among married couples: asking ...
Edward Finegan, Charles Albert Ferguson, Shirley Brice Heath, 2004
6
Humanization and Social Dreaming: A Case Study of Changing ...
Digitizing is, to use modern parlance, a load of "shitwork." But it ought to be the analyst's shitwork. When it's your own, beautiful things can come out of drudgery: the production of skill, the slow growth of technical know-how, the self-satisfaction  ...
Manuel Luis Espinoza, 2008
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Mother Jones Magazine
The "her" jobs usually include the shitwork, and doing them is part of being a " good" wife, mother, home- maker. This equation of shitwork and female virtue runs deep. Consider the Wisk commercial on television: the wife who doesn't get  ...
8
The Routledge Linguistics Encyclopedia
... Kate 314; community of practice framework 311; conversational shitwork 308; declaratives with rising intonation 308; difference approach 308–9; dominance approach 308–9; Donovan, Veronica 312–13; dual-cultures approach 308; Eckert, ...
Kirsten Malmkjaer, 2009
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The Edge of Chaos: A Novel
At the time, I figured some kind of massive projection going on, or this is how the human heart gets through five years of literal shitwork—” “Jay, cut me some slack. I'll be somebody's shitwork soon enough.” Judith leaned over and kissed her ...
Pamela McCorduck, 2011
10
Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties
The shitwork still needs to be done by somebody in Western countries. But we cannot export all of our cleaning, cooking, sweeping, public transport, and washing up, or our sick and old, to be taken care of in the Third World, as easily as we ...
Ulrich Ammon, 1989

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHITWORK»

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Letters at 3am: The World That Calls Itself "the World": We're …
If shitwork doesn't get done, you can't have a bourgeoisie or a 1%. And the weeping next door, heard through the wall: She was the very young mother of a little ... «Austin Chronicle, Oct 14»
REFERENCE
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