The Shit-Eating Grin

[dr_mabeuse]

Just what is a shit-eating grin?

I'd always thought it was the wide smile someone gave you when they'd just fucked you over. But I've also seen it to mean a wide innocent smile, a smile of ignorance, or one of pride.

America wants to know.


---dr.M.

 

[DarlingNikki]

Oh, weird. I always thought it was kind of a sheepish smile, like of someone who shouldn't really be smiling at that moment but is trying to save their face. Like someone smiling while being yelled at by their boss. Kissing ass, eating shit, something demeaning like that.

But I think that's because of a vivid memory from high school involving the mean teacher yelling at some poor girl (no, it wasn't me) and then telling her to "get that shit-eating grin off your face" and yelling some more.

So mean Mr. Freeman and I could be way off.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

That is such an odd saying, I mean whoever ate shit and grinned about it anyway?



Wicked

 

[CrownJoolz]

hmmm...

Oh, weird. I always thought it was kind of a sheepish smile, like of someone who shouldn't really be smiling at that moment but is trying to save their face. Like someone smiling while being yelled at by their boss. Kissing ass, eating shit, something demeaning like that.

But I think that's because of a vivid memory from high school involving the mean teacher yelling at some poor girl (no, it wasn't me) and then telling her to "get that shit-eating grin off your face" and yelling some more.

So mean Mr. Freeman and I could be way off.

That's interesting. I'd never thought of it that way. In the place and time I grew up, it was used the way Dr. M. understood it. A shit-eating grin in my part of the world was a grin that said "Eat shit and die, asshole."

Joolz

 

[Svenskaflicka]

To me, a shit-eating grin means that you're smiling contently because you've just been teasing someone, or because you've just gotten something really nice.

 

[MathGirl]

Gene

From my archives, I offer the following photo of the late singing cowboy, Gene Autry. As always, I have tried to stay well within the boundaries of delicacy and good taste.
MG
Ps. That's corn

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I've always used shit eating grin to describe a smarmy, superior smile...the "I'm better than you/ I know something you don't know" singing something in that obnoxious singsong voice in their head kind of smile


If you're a Star Trek Fan...the one that Q is always sporting

 

[karmadog]

take this for what it's worth

I think that phrase is derived from 'he grinned like he was eating shit out of a wire brush'. I can't remember where that comes from, though.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmm

That is such an odd saying, I mean whoever ate shit and grinned about it anyway?



Wicked

Dung Beetles.

 

[TheEarl]

A shit eating grin is the big wide smile of someone who is happy at another person's expense I think. Schadenfreude.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

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[openthighs_sarah]

I always thought it was meant to suggest someone who's been caught doing something of questionable character, but who isn't too upset about getting caught.

Not to mix threads, but it reminds me of a piece of slang from my younger days -- haven't heard it much lately: "Eat shit and die."

 

[Erlikkhan]

Remember the source. A shit-eating grin is always something described by the recipient of one. Someone has gouged their gord and they are pissed. Smug... sardonic maybe... laughing in your face.

 

[Just_John1]

A derivative of the word shit

Similar to the word "shit" shit eating grin has many definitions. For example, shit can be bad "he shit on my carpet" good "that's really good shit (usually said through squinty eyes in a smoke filled room) possesive "Hey that's my shit!" frustrated "I don't give a shit" Surprise "oh shit!" all according to George Carlin.

My feelings on "shit eating grin" is that it can fit many situations, the cat had a shit eating grin when he ate the mouse, similar to Docs scenarios where someone had been royally screwed and the screwer enjoyed it I don't think its necessary to explain which is which.

A shit eating grin is expected when something goes very well... The typical description of one who has just snuck a quicky in the broom closet at work is a "shit eating grin"

shit eating grin can be defiant, like Darlin Nikkis anecdote.

Shit eating grin can be jubilant, like the shit eating grin the winner of the clearinghouse sweepstakes had when they knocked on his house during the super bowl.

I think it is actually a very versatile term that can mean many things.

Just My Humble Opinion

JJ1

 

[openthighs_sarah]

Re: A derivative of the word shit

Similar to the word "shit" shit eating grin has many definitions. For example, shit can be bad "he shit on my carpet" good "that's really good shit (usually said through squinty eyes in a smoke filled room) possesive "Hey that's my shit!" frustrated "I don't give a shit" Surprise "oh shit!" all according to George Carlin.

My feelings on "shit eating grin" is that it can fit many situations, the cat had a shit eating grin when he ate the mouse, similar to Docs scenarios where someone had been royally screwed and the screwer enjoyed it I don't think its necessary to explain which is which.

A shit eating grin is expected when something goes very well... The typical description of one who has just snuck a quicky in the broom closet at work is a "shit eating grin"

shit eating grin can be defiant, like Darlin Nikkis anecdote.

Shit eating grin can be jubilant, like the shit eating grin the winner of the clearinghouse sweepstakes had when they knocked on his house during the super bowl.

I think it is actually a very versatile term that can mean many things.

Just My Humble Opinion

JJ1

Jesus Christ... Sounds like the slut of the neologistic world. Is there anything that's whore won't do?

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

Dung Beetles

Good one! I guess I never considered that.
I hate bugs!

Wicked

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Hmmmmm

Dung Beetles.

Dear Pop,
I can agree only partially. The beetle's chitinous exoskeleton makes it impossible for them to grin, but they are definitely shit eaters.
MG

 

[snooper]

THE definitive original

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Attached is the definitive original on which Yahoo based their emoticon.

 

[CrownJoolz]

Re: Re: Hmmmmm

Dear Pop,
I can agree only partially. The beetle's chitinous exoskeleton makes it impossible for them to grin, but they are definitely shit eaters.
MG

You're chitin' me!