"piece of shit" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-piece of shit.ogg Forms: pieces of shit [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|pieces of shit}} piece of shit (plural pieces of shit)
  1. (idiomatic, vulgar) A bad thing; an object of poor quality. Tags: idiomatic, vulgar Synonyms: piece of crap, piece of junk, pile of shit, trash Translations (a bad thing): paska (Finnish), (de la) merde [feminine] (French), saloperie [feminine] (French), chierie [feminine] (French), חתיכת חרא (hatihat hara) (Hebrew), sampah (Indonesian), brengsek (Indonesian), cacata [feminine] (Italian), cagata [feminine] (Italian), dritt [masculine] (Norwegian), merda [feminine] (Portuguese), porcaria (Portuguese), кусо́к дерьма́ (kusók derʹmá) [masculine] (Russian), pedazo de mierda [masculine] (Spanish), mierda [feminine] (Spanish), skithög [common-gender] (Swedish), skrothög [common-gender] (Swedish), skräphög [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-piece_of_shit-en-noun-AHjuJYKp Disambiguation of 'a bad thing': 99 1 0
  2. (idiomatic, derogatory, vulgar) A despicable person. Tags: derogatory, idiomatic, vulgar Synonyms: sack of shit, jerk Translations (a despicable person): хуйло́ (xujló) [neuter] (Belarusian), schoelje [masculine] (Dutch), paskiainen (Finnish), paskapää (Finnish), kusipää (Finnish), paska (Finnish), sac à merde [masculine] (French), pauvre merde [feminine] (French), sous-merde [feminine] (French), merde [feminine] (French), fumier [masculine] (French), brengsek (Indonesian), pezzo di merda [masculine] (Italian), 糞垂れ (kusotare, kusottare) [literally] (Japanese), drittsekk [masculine] (Norwegian), zasraniec [masculine] (Polish), monte de merda [masculine] (Portuguese), filho da puta (Portuguese), căcat cu ochi [masculine] (Romanian), говню́к (govnjúk) [masculine] (Russian), хуйло́ (xujló) [neuter] (Russian), хуйло́ (xujló) [neuter] (Ukrainian), שטיק דרעק (shtik drek) [neuter] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-piece_of_shit-en-noun-PQcwpCJW Categories (other): Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Portuguese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 8 61 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 8 60 32 Disambiguation of 'a despicable person': 2 98 1
  3. (vulgar) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit. Tags: vulgar Synonyms: turd, POS
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        },
        {
          "word": "trash"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977 August 27, Steve Savage, Susan \"Suki\" Eagan, “Everything You Wanted to Know About Suki, But Were Too Distracted In Chaps to Ask Her”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 8, page 8:",
          "text": "And it takes the emphasis off of cruising and sexuality, and makes it more like kind of a party thing, and everybody feels comfortable, and nobody feels like \"I'm a piece of shit 'cause I didn't get somebody tonight,\" and they don't feel so lonely.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Rachel DeWoskin, Foreign Babes in Beijing […] , W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 287:",
          "text": "But then Zhao Jun switched to English and said, “I'll kick your face in, you piece of shit,” and it came out electric fluent, no one laughed. “How dare you call him a piece of shit?” the man's wife shrieked.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:",
          "text": "While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A despicable person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "despicable",
          "despicable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, derogatory, vulgar) A despicable person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sack of shit"
        },
        {
          "word": "jerk"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "idiomatic",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English vulgarities"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "piece",
          "piece#English"
        ],
        [
          "of",
          "of#English"
        ],
        [
          "shit",
          "shit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(vulgar) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, of, shit."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "turd"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/En-au-piece_of_shit.ogg"
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "POS"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "word": "paska"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "(de la) merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "saloperie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chierie"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "hatihat hara",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "word": "חתיכת חרא"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "word": "sampah"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "word": "brengsek"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cacata"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cagata"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dritt"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "merda"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "word": "porcaria"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kusók derʹmá",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кусо́к дерьма́"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pedazo de mierda"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mierda"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skithög"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skrothög"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a bad thing",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skräphög"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "xujló",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "хуйло́"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "schoelje"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "paskiainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "paskapää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "kusipää"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "paska"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sac à merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pauvre merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sous-merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "merde"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "fumier"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "brengsek"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pezzo di merda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kusotare, kusottare",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ],
      "word": "糞垂れ"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "drittsekk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zasraniec"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "monte de merda"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "word": "filho da puta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "căcat cu ochi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "govnjúk",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "говню́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xujló",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "хуйло́"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xujló",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "хуйло́"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "shtik drek",
      "sense": "a despicable person",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "שטיק דרעק"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piece of shit"
}

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