Shat

//ʃæt// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Nickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire, colloquial
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of chott. alt-of, alternative

    "All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation."

  2. 2
    Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).

    "Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who … gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats … some pine shats for his father."

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of shit form-of, participle, past

    "Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe."

Etymology

Etymology 1

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.

Etymology 2

From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Etymology 3

Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.

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