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shat

/ʃæt/

shat is the simple past and past participle of shit.

shat is the alternative form of chott.

Meaning of shit

Verb

shit (third-person singular simple present shits, present participle shitting, simple past shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit, past participle shat or (rare) shitted or (US) shit or shitten)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive, literally, vulgar) To defecate.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:shit.
  2. (colloquial, literally, transitive, vulgar) To excrete (something) through the anus.
  3. (colloquial, literally, reflexive, transitive, vulgar) To defecate on; to soil through defecating.
    • I laughed so hard I shat myself.
  4. (ambitransitive, colloquial, slang, vulgar) To fart (especially a wet fart) or shart.
    • Of course, the farter does not dislike the smell of his own doing, but anybody else's fart, "Katey, bar the doors" and shouting, "Who shit?"2008, Norman A. Richards, What Do Women Gossip About?, page 35
  5. (colloquial, transitive, vulgar) To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
    • Twelve hundred dollars!? Are you shitting me!?
  6. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, UK, colloquial, transitive) To annoy.
    • I saw red and smashed a plate and a bowl. […] I swept up the mess. I bawled a lot as I swept […] I also thought, I am about to get my period. It absolutely shits me that this should explain anything.1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 70

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Meaning of chott

Noun

chott (plural chotts)

  1. A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
    Synonyms:
    sabkha

Noun

shat (plural shats)

  1. (chiefly Maryland, Delaware) Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
    • Dryden used the car that afternoon to get shats for the hog pen of Ollie Hitchens, who … gave Dryden a dollar for his services in getting the shats … some pine shats for his father.1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559
    • A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 225
    Synonyms:
    shatter

Proper noun capitalized: Shat

Shat

  1. (Yorkshire, colloquial) Nickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England.

Synonyms of shat

Forms of shat

pluralshats

Origin of shat

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.

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

Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.

Words formed from shat

Phrases with shat

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Words that rhyme with shat

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Questions about shat

What does shat mean?
Shat means synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
What is shat the simple past and past participle of?
Shat is the simple past and past participle of shit.
What part of speech is shat?
Shat can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce shat?
Shat is pronounced /ʃæt/.
What is the plural of shat?
The plural of shat is shats.

Words near shat in the dictionary

  1. shastree
  2. shastrees
  3. shastri
  4. shastrik
  5. shastris
  6. shat
  7. shat a brick
  8. shat bricks
  9. shat in someone's Cheerios
  10. shat it in
  11. shat off

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shat (page history and authors); Shat (page history and authors); shit (page history and authors); chott (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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