So, across my life I thought that the phrase "bullshit" is literal: it refers to "the shit of bulls"; the animals.
I thought maybe it's very stinky, so the phrase was used.
What made the idea stuck more to my head is the phrase "horseshit".
I thought both are animals that eat grass, so perhaps grassy shit is very stinky, just like sheep shit which smells very bad.
So I wanted to invent my own phrase: "slothshit" instead of "bullshit".
But I googled the origin of bullshit to find this:
Bull wasn't referring to the animal after all. But I like my phrase that I invented; Slothshit probably smells like...nasty shit.
I thought maybe it's very stinky, so the phrase was used.
What made the idea stuck more to my head is the phrase "horseshit".
I thought both are animals that eat grass, so perhaps grassy shit is very stinky, just like sheep shit which smells very bad.
So I wanted to invent my own phrase: "slothshit" instead of "bullshit".
But I googled the origin of bullshit to find this:
Quote:Etymology. "Bull", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in British and American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II. The word "bull" itself may have derived from the Old French bole meaning "fraud, deceit".
Bull wasn't referring to the animal after all. But I like my phrase that I invented; Slothshit probably smells like...nasty shit.
