This fun meme did the rounds a few years ago:
Here are the definitions from Wiktionary and an example sentence for each:
apeshit: “Out of control due to anger or excitement”
I told him the bad news, and he went apeshit.
batshit: “Too irrational to be dealt with sanely”
Don’t take any courses from that professor. She’s completely batshit.
bullshit: “False or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform”
Don’t pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.
chickenshit: “Petty and contemptible; contemptibly unimportant”; “a coward”
I told him I wasn’t having his insults, and he just backed right down. What a chickenshit.
My dogshit bike broke again.
horseshit: “Serious harassment or abuse”; “Blatant nonsense, more likely stemming from ignorance than any intent to deceive”
He thinks vinegar is alkaline? Don’t you realize that’s horseshit?
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