Crossword clues for horseshit
horseshit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
horseshit \horseshit\ n. A ludicrously false statement. [Vulgar slang]
Syn: bullshit, bull, Irish bull, shit, crap, bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash, dogshit.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context vulgar slang English) Serious harassment or abuse. 2 (context vulgar slang English) Blatant nonsense, more likely stemming from ignorance than any intent to deceive. 3 (context vulgar slang English) bullshit
WordNet
Wikipedia
The first known usage was 1923.
The word horseshit or horse shit can mean or be used to describe:
- The feces of the horse; see horse manure, (in this meaning more often spelled as two words) also referred to as "road apples."
- Nonsense, either inaccurate statements spoken out of ignorance rather than deception, or irrelevant statements (which are not necessarily false) spoken to avoid answering a direct question or to divert the conversation. (usually spelled as one word) ( slang): see bullshit.
- Appearance, as in: You look like horseshit. In Kodak Moment Ned Gardner uses "You like horseshit," referring to one's appearance. One would not say you look like bullshit. This is the difference in colloquial use.
- Expressing how one feels: I feel like horseshit. Again one would not say I feel like bullshit. However one could say I feel like crap.
- Taste, as in: This beer tastes like horseshit. One could say this beer tastes like crap but would not say this beer tastes like bullshit or dogshit.
- Description, horseshit can be used as an adjective to describe a noun. That is horseshit beer.
Usage examples of "horseshit".
Compared to the hospitality I enjoyed in the Vale of Arryn, drums, horseshit, and fly bites are my favorite things.
Everybody, but everybody Comes In dead-eyed and puke-white and with their face hanging down around their knees and with a well-thumbed firearm-and-ordnance mail-order catalogue kept safe and available at home, map-wise, for when this last desperate resort of hugs and cliches turns out to be just happy horseshit, for you.
He got Braven Dyer to write that Fire and Ice horseshit, then he took the whole pie to Horrall.
This was a little disconcerting since Bud knew it was all horseshit, but he had heard that these dotheads prided themselves on customer service.
Now they want to talk to my bosses about 'Mutual Defense Treaties' and all this happy horseshit.
A big fuckload of lies glued together to prove a single theory that was easy to believe because believing was easier than wading through the glut of horseshit to say, “Wrong.
So why don't you cut the prima donna horseshit and get with the program like the rest of us?
Now, hear me loud and clear: this time, we're going to find the bastard who sent those Polaroid snapshots-no more broken lie detectors, no more botched interrogations-and we're going to find out if he's the one who teased Jack Twist into returning, and we're going to come down on him so hard he'll wish he'd been born a fly and spent his life in a stable sucking up horseshit.
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshippers.
And here's the kicker: we called Loew to tell him the Mex man was horseshit, but a Rurale buddy of ours says that Vogel and Koenig are still rousting spies.
While he liked horses and all, there really didn't seem to be a whole lot of value or knowledge to be gained from being up to your calves in horseshit, the smell combining with a nauseating breakfast.