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Sheet

A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.

Pronunciation: /ʃiːt/, /ʃit/

What “Sheet” means

Noun

  1. A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
  2. A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.
  3. A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
  4. A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
  5. A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.

Verb

  1. To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
  2. To form into sheets.
  3. To pour heavily.
  4. To trim a sail using a sheet.

Noun

  1. Euphemistic form of shit.

Where the word comes from

From Middle English schete; partly from Old English sċīete (“a sheet, a piece of linen cloth”); partly from Old English sċēata (“a corner, angle; the lower corner of a sail, sheet”); and Old English sċēat (“a corner, angle”); all from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ, *skautaz (“corner, wedge, lap”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- (“to throw, shoot, pursue, rush”). Cognate with North Frisian skut (“the fold of a garment, lap, coattail”), West Frisian skoat (“sheet; sail; lap”), Dutch schoot (“the fold of a garment, lap, sheet”), German Low German Schote (“a line from the foot of a sail”), German Schoß (“the fold of a garment, lap”), Danish skød (“lap, skirt”), Icelandic skaut (“the corner of a cloth, a line from the foot of a sail, the skirt or sleeve of a garment, a hood”), Norwegian skaut (“headdress”), Swedish sköt (“sheet”).

A minced oath of shit.

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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