Scat Definition

Origin of Scat

• From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sceatt (“property, goods, owndom, wealth, treasure; payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, rent, a tithe; a piece of money, a coin; denarius, twentieth part of a shilling") and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure, tax, tribute, coin"); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth, owndom, goods, hoard, treasure, geld, money"), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out"). Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe"), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling"), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart"), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart"), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty, jewel"), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute"), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound").

  From Wiktionary

• Origin uncertain. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling down, bespatter"), or an alteration of shit (past tense shat; compare Old English scāt), also used for "drugs, heroin". Given the given popular character of the word and unmotivated derivation pattern, derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skōr, skat-, “excrement") is unlikely

  From Wiktionary

• Perhaps from the interjection scat!, itself an interjectional form of scoot! or scout!, from the root of shoot. Alternatively, from the expression quicker than s'cat (“in a great hurry"), perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas! (“shoo!, begone!").

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• Origin unknown

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Origin unknown

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Origin unknown

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• Probably imitative.

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