Definitions For Shat

Etymology 1

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc.Bruce L. Derwing, Royal Skousen, Productivity and the English Past Tense, in The Reality of Linguistic Rules, page 202Survival of the Strongest, in Studies in the History of the English Language V (2010, {{ISBN, 3110220326}}, page 101: What may come as a surprise, depending on the framework in which one operates, is that sit must have been largely responsible for the preterite shat of shit and probably the preterite spat of spit. Shit should conjugate shite~shote, and spit was originally weak (OED). First recorded in the eighteenth century.{{cite-web, url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shit, title=Etymology Online Dictionary: 'shit', last=Harper, first=Douglas, date=2001, work=Etymology Online Dictionary, publisher=Douglas Harper, accessdate=2009-04-13}}

Pronunciation

/ʃæt/ (audio stream unavailable) {{rhymes, en, æt}}

Verb

simple past tense and past participle of shit

Etymology 2

{{der, en, ar, شَطّ}}; see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Pronunciation

/ʃʌt/{{R:Century 1914}} {{rhymes, en, ʌt}}

Noun

SHAT (plural SHATs) {{altform, en, chott}}

Etymology 3

Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word , (*)shattle, needle,J. A. Cope of the Maryland State Department of Forestry, Loblolly Pine in Maryland: A Handbook for Growers and Users (1923), page 3: [...] so it frequently gets the designation of long-leaf pine, or long-needled pine, or more commonly, especially in Somerset County "long-shat pine" — shat, or shattle, being an obsolete word for needle.Ella C. Emery of the Delaware Commission for Conservation of Forests, ‎Report of Commission for the Conservation of Forests in Delaware (1926), page 27: The needles of this pine are from 6 to 8 inches long and for that reason, in the regions where it abounds, it is often called long shat pine; that being an abbreviation or contraction of the obsolete word shattle, meaning needle. It is so termed as a matter of distinguishing it from scrub pine ... but more likely a shortening of the synonymous shatter, (pine) shatter.Theophilus Tunis, Forestry for Profit: How the Woodlot Can be Made to Pay (1923), page 72: An artificial planting of loblolly pine I knew forty years ago, planted for a convenient or near-by supply of pine needles known in various localities by the various names of pine shats or shatters, pine straw or litter, [...]

Pronunciation

/ʃæt/ {{rhymes, en, æt}}

Noun

SHAT (plural SHATs) (chiefly, Maryland, Delaware) {{synonym of, en, shatter, , a pine needle}}.

Anagrams

ATHs, HATs, Tash, has't, hast, hats, tash, thas