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skatt

skatt is the obsolete form of scat.

Meaning of scat

Noun (1)

scat (plural scats)

  1. A tax; tribute.
  2. (Shetland) A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands.

Noun (2)

scat (countable and uncountable, plural scats)

  1. Animal excrement; droppings, dung.
    • They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist [print version: For hungry polar bears, a climate change twist, International New York Times, 24 September 2014, p 12]”, in...
    Synonyms:
    feces
  2. (slang) Heroin.
    Synonyms:
    shit
  3. (obsolete, slang) Whiskey.
  4. (slang) Coprophilia, scatophilia.
    • Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, page 183
    Synonyms:
    storm

See all 13 meanings of scat

Forms of skatt

pluralskatts

Questions about skatt

What is skatt the obsolete form of?
Skatt is the obsolete form of scat.

Words near skatt in the dictionary

  1. skatole
  2. skatoles
  3. skatology
  4. skatols
  5. skats
  6. skatt
  7. Skattebøl rearrangement
  8. Skattebøl rearrangements
  9. skattie
  10. skatties
  11. skattland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skatt (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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