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SHITEY, adj. Also shitty. In phr. to drink through a shitey/shitty cloot To drink alcohol indiscriminately.wm.Sc. 1991 Liz Lochhead Bagpipe Muzak 43:
I was embarrassed for My Mother. Dragging us up she had nothing, because my feyther — God forgive me for speaking ill of the dead — but he'd have took drink through a shitty cloot. m.Sc. 1994 Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay Forever Yours, Marie-Lou 36:
And what had the doactir tellt him? The selfsame thing he's tellt you: no drink! Not a drop! And what did your faither dae? The same as you: he drank it through a shitey cloot! Oh, but ah've goat the telephone number aff bi hert, Leopold, and soon's ah see your tongue hingin oot dribblin an yir eyes gaun skelly, ah'll be liftin that phone, then ah'll be shot ae you fur good!