bored shitless
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9.9
- idiom
- Offensive
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muerto de aburrimiento
Yeah, sorry audio listeners, I was absolutely bored shitless so I yawned straight at Max's face.
- Yeah, sorry audio listeners, I was absolutely bored shitless so I yawned straight at Max's face.
- I said to tell you the truth mate, I'm fucking bored shitless.
Examples
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I'm bored shitless.
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Yeah, sorry audio listeners, I was absolutely bored shitless so I yawned straight at Max's face.
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If they'd kept on the same old beaten track with the character instead of 'One More Day', we'd be bored shitless by now as he got stale and boring...
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After sitting in the waiting room for hours, I was bored shitless and couldn't wait to leave.
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During the long lecture, most students seemed bored shitless by the teacher's monotone voice.
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He flipped through the channels for hours, growing increasingly bored shitless as nothing interesting came on.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling not interested and tired from doing the same thing too much
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6.1
Feeling very uninterested and restless because nothing holds your attention
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9.3
Feeling bored, tired, and not interested
Antonyms
How Bored
- Offensive
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9.9
- Informal
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6.1
353
1.0
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3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward compositional structure: 'bored' (feeling uninterested) modified by the intensifier 'shitless' (informally meaning 'extremely' or 'completely'), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'extremely bored'. Although the intensifier is vulgar, its enhancing function is transparent and parallels other cross-linguistic intensifier patterns, making the overall meaning predictable for a B1 learner who knows the constituents.
Etymology
Bored shitless comes from older rude phrases like scared shitless, where shitless gave a strong image of someone so frightened they lost control of their body. People began to add shitless after other feelings such as bored to mean 'very', so bored shitless means extremely bored.