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Shat
//ʃæt// name, noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Nickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire, colloquial
Noun
- 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 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 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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