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scatting

scatting is the present participle and gerund of scat.

Meaning of scat

Verb (1)

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

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

Verb (2)

scat (third-person singular simple present scats, present participle scatting, simple past and past participle scatted)

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

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Noun

scatting (usually uncountable, plural scattings)

  1. (usually) scat singing

Forms of scatting

pluralscattings

Questions about scatting

What does scatting mean?
Scatting means scat singing.
What is scatting the present participle and gerund of?
Scatting is the present participle and gerund of scat.
What part of speech is scatting?
Scatting is a noun.
What is the plural of scatting?
The plural of scatting is scattings.

Words near scatting in the dictionary

  1. scattery
  2. scattier
  3. scattiest
  4. scattily
  5. scattiness
  6. scatting
  7. scattings
  8. scattland
  9. scattlands
  10. scatts
  11. scatty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scatting (page history and authors); scat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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