scat

Etymology 1
From, , from and ; both from , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A tax; tribute.
 * 2)  A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

Translations

 * Swedish:

Etymology 2
Origin. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from, compare 🇨🇬, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal, or an alteration of , which is also used for "drugs, heroin".

Noun

 * 1)  Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
 * 2) * 2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, "Sasquatch Your Language", Corner Gas Animated
 * Wherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings.
 * 1)  Heroin.
 * 2)  Whiskey.
 * 3)  Coprophilia.
 * 4) * 1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-312-02158-0, page 183:
 * Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.
 * 1)  A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
 * 1)  A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
 * 1)  A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
 * 1)  A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:feces
 * shit, scag; see also Thesaurus:heroin
 * See Thesaurus:storm

Related terms

 * (dung)

Translations

 * Macedonian: и́змет
 * Swedish:


 * French:
 * Russian: копро

Etymology 3
Probably imitative.

Noun

 * 1)  Scat singing.

Verb

 * 1)  To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

Etymology 4
From, from the root of. Alternatively, from the expression, perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To leave quickly.
 * Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
 * Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
 * Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
 * Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
 * Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.

Interjection

 * Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
 * Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
 * Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
 * Scat! Go on! Get out of here!
 * Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

Translations

 * Bulgarian: махам се
 * Russian:


 * Latin: apage
 * Macedonian: бри́ши
 * Navajo: kxodjįʼ
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Etymology 5
From the taxonomic name of the family.

Noun

 * 1) Any fish in the family

Etymology
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Noun

 * , coprophilia sexual interest in feces