I think you’re confused because you would never use “shit”/“shat” transitively. you shit *at* people, you don’t shit them (I sincerely hope). a more obviously transitive verb might be “punch” as opposed to “talk”. so you “talk to me” or “talked to me” but you “punch me” or “punched me”. bullshit is like punch: you bullshit people, you don’t bullshit at them, so if it happened in the past, you punched them or bullshat them.

the final confusing quirk is that in my subtitle the past participle is being used as an adjective, but that doesn’t change the conjugation.

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Wouldn’t you need the preposition in the sentence, though? Because in the sentence you’d have to write the “to” bit. Talked “to” you.

That’s different than to “shit someone.” You don’t need the preposition for the sentence to make sense. Are you shitting me? Transitive. It doesn’t necessarily have to be taken as pushing someone out of your ass. 😂 it’s idiomatic, and transitive.

To shit is the same as to deceive or to trick, all transitive.

Yes, I was confused by the adjective. I researched the grammar as I've been bullshat before. I stand corrected and retract.

This depends on how you form the past tense of ‘to bullshit’.

“He bullshat me” or, “he bullshitted me”?