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English word origin

Etymology of shat

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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Source etymology 1

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verb

simple past and past participle of shit

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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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Source etymology 2

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noun

Alternative form of chott.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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

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Source etymology 3

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noun

Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

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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