shat

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/ʃæt//ʃʌt/

noun

Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).

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Meanings

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verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of shit

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

    1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7)
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    We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods.

    2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing

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nounshat (plural shats)

plural shats

  1. alternativeAlternative form of chott.

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

    1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482

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nounshat (plural shats)

plural shats

  1. chiefly Maryland; Delaware; chiefly Maryland; DelawareSynonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).

    A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.

    2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 225
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    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.

    1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559

    Synonyms: shatter

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proper noun
  1. YorkshirecolloquialNickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England.

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nounSynonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).

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Origin

shat · verb

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

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shat · noun

  1. Arabicشَطّ
  2. Englishshat

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

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shat · noun

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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Shat · proper noun

Named after the Shatterers, from shatterer, a group of labourers hired to "shatter" (break) rocks during the construction of local railway and deep cuttings in the 19th century. Some locals also suggest this nickname referred to Luddites who met at the local Chartist pub to break (shatter) looms.

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APA

shat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shat

MLA

“shat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shat. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shat,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shat.

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