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"2": "shit",
"3": "work"
},
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],
"etymology_text": "shit + work",
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},
"expansion": "shitwork (uncountable)",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, page 276",
"text": "Now it was real detective shitwork.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Ben Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line",
"text": "GM paid us a tidy income and we did the shitwork. No one was holding a gun to anyone's head.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, David McCumber, The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch, page 88",
"text": "Mop again. Check the drop again. Clean the floor again. Fill the manger again. Shitwork.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Linda Barnes, Coyote, page 111",
"text": "I'm not into chasing some poor OTM wants to come in here and earn food money doing the kind of shitwork native-born Americans won't do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Katarzyna Marciniak, Alienhood: citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference, page 53",
"text": "He's a Chicano. He's an American citizen but he comes from a Mexican family. That's why he has to do the same shitwork we do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, David Zimmerman, The Sandbox",
"text": "Basically, he does the shitwork. As scrawny as he is, Ahmed can heft a good bit of weight and always seems to be busy even when he's not doing anything, a skill I'd like to learn.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction."
],
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],
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"(derogatory) Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction."
],
"related": [
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"word": "blocking and tackling"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"pejorative"
],
"word": "gruntwork"
},
{
"tags": [
"pejorative"
],
"word": "bitchwork"
}
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"uncountable"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"word": "paskaduuni"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"word": "hanttihomma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"pejorative",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "Scheißarbeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "Liechtenstein spelling",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"tags": [
"Switzerland",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Scheissarbeit"
}
]
}
],
"word": "shitwork"
}
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"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1987, James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, page 276",
"text": "Now it was real detective shitwork.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1991, Ben Hamper, Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line",
"text": "GM paid us a tidy income and we did the shitwork. No one was holding a gun to anyone's head.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2000, David McCumber, The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch, page 88",
"text": "Mop again. Check the drop again. Clean the floor again. Fill the manger again. Shitwork.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Linda Barnes, Coyote, page 111",
"text": "I'm not into chasing some poor OTM wants to come in here and earn food money doing the kind of shitwork native-born Americans won't do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Katarzyna Marciniak, Alienhood: citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference, page 53",
"text": "He's a Chicano. He's an American citizen but he comes from a Mexican family. That's why he has to do the same shitwork we do.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, David Zimmerman, The Sandbox",
"text": "Basically, he does the shitwork. As scrawny as he is, Ahmed can heft a good bit of weight and always seems to be busy even when he's not doing anything, a skill I'd like to learn.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction."
],
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"(derogatory) Work of low status or yielding little satisfaction."
],
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]
}
],
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],
"word": "gruntwork"
},
{
"tags": [
"pejorative"
],
"word": "bitchwork"
}
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"word": "paskaduuni"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"word": "hanttihomma"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"pejorative",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "Scheißarbeit"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "Liechtenstein spelling",
"sense": "work of low status or satisfaction",
"tags": [
"Switzerland",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Scheissarbeit"
}
],
"word": "shitwork"
}
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