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shath en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of shower + bath.

Meanings

1. (informal) A combination shower and bath.
   • I don't do anything for them. Vikki does everything—bath-shath, breakfast, potty, dropping, fetching. He's the one who goes for Open Day, sports, dramatics, all that nonsense. Where do I have the time? 2013 October 15, Shobhaa De, Sultry Days, reprint edition, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
   • Rad, there's a shower that is also a bath. A bower. A shath. Whatever it's called, I can't wait to use it. 2023 August 8, James Bird, No Place Like Home, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN:
   • The bathroom has a small tub and no shower, just a smooth hose attached to the faucet and hanging limply downward, a neck bent in defeat. “You don't have a shower,” I say, walking back out and feeling the sudden intimacy of being in his space. It's all so quintessentially him: sparse furniture other than floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with books. Elliot watches me as I lean against the hallway wall. The space is tiny, and he seems to fill it with his height and the solid width of his chest. “I don't know if I could handle only having a bathtub,” I babble. “I call it a shath,” he says. “That sounds dirty.” 2018 April 10, Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
   • “Do both. Like when I can't decide between a bath or a shower, I call it a "shath."” 2021 April 11, Ted Travelstead, “Keep Beef-lievin' Adventure” (1:25 from the start), in The Great North, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Honeybee Shaw (Dulcé Sloan):
   • I hopped into the shower bath (shath?) and enjoyed some momentary relief as the warm water seemed to help. 2021 December 29, Laban Ditchburn, “The Angel of Death”, in Bet on You, Laban Ditchburn, →ISBN, page 71:
   • The shower did have its day. When it was too rough to take a proper shower, I took a ‘shath’, or a ‘bower’. Take your pick. Anyway, the shower did extremely well while I sat in the bath as the force was so little it was more controllable and I was scrunched up, so I was easier to soak. 2016 July 11, Rosalind Scott, Aweigh with My Mother-in-Law!: Adventures Afloat and Ashore with the World's Most Infuriating Passenger, Mereo Books, →ISBN, page 211:

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