shat
/ʃæt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of shit
noun
Alternative form of chott.
noun
Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
name
Nickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe."
- "We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods."
- "All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation."
- "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."
- "A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees."
Etymology
A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: شَطّ, ش ط ط
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Shat lad
Shat lass