A generic phrase used in response to a question. The intonations of which this phase is said will assert the feelings of the person replying. If said happily, then the person is having a good day. If said sadly, then the person is having a day derived from the first word of the phrase. May also be used as a greeting or an explicative.
Origins believed to have come from in or near the vicinity of San Antonio, Texas.
As a response;
Bitsy: How y’all doin’ today, Clem?
Clem: SHIT HOWDY!!!
Bitsy: How y’all doin’ today, Clem?
Clem: …shit howdy.
As a greeting; Shit Howdy, ain’t it a glorious day!
As a explicative; Shit Howdy, I just won the lottery!
The act of being ridiculously drunk to the point where you get crazy eyes and you're doing and saying some of the most absurd things imaginable.
"Yo dude, you were so shithoodled last night that you did lines off of a hooker's ass then brought that 14 year old back to your room saying that all you wanted to do was 'sexual things'."
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”