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shat en · VERB · etymology 1

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

(form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of shit
form of shit
- We all lived in small communities, hunted, and foraged. We shat in the woods. 2009, Rob Dunn, Every Living Thing:
- Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe. 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7)

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

(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of chott.
alt of chott
- All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation. 1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482:

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

(qualifier:chiefly Maryland; Delaware; 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:

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