scat
A tax; tributeA tax; tribute.
» When Mary wasn't home, Tom would watch scat porn.
Meaning
10 sensesA tax; tribute.
(Shetland)A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.
(countable, uncountable)Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
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.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Heroin.
(countable, slang, uncountable)Coprophilia, scatophilia.
копроkopro
(uncommon)A blow; a hit, an impact.
(UK, dialectal)A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind.
Scat singing.
Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
(countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)Whiskey.
- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
Examples
5 sentencesWhen Mary wasn't home, Tom would watch scat porn.
Sasha is known for her musicality and her ability to improvise or “scat.”
Tom became concerned about Mary's scat fetish.
Louis Armstrong was a well-known exponent of scat singing.
People don't like going online to look at memes and seeing a bunch of gore, scat, and Nazism, so they avoid 4chan.
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods”) and Old NorseFrom Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”).
Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".
Uncertain. The OED, which connects the senses "blow" and "shower" only tentatively, suggests that at least the former might be onomatopoeia. Dialectally, the word can also refer to "a spell" of any kind of weather, e.g. "a scat of fine weather", "a scat of frost".
1920s, probably imitative.
From the taxonomic name of the family.
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Forms
plural: scatsSynonyms
5 synonyms- singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument:scat singing