scat

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tax; tribute.
  2. Animal excrement; droppings, dung. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. A blow; a hit, an impact. uncommon
    — ... a shot rang out, followed immediately by the "scat" of a bullet against the rock behind which he lay concealed. A tramp of heavy Galloway brogans was heard, and a half-hearted kicking about among the heather bushes, and at last[…]
  4. Scat singing.
  5. Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.
  6. A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands. Shetland
  7. Heroin. countable,slang,uncountable
  8. A brisk shower of rain, driven by the wind. UK,dialectal
    — Low black Clouds on it being ſoppoſed to prognoſticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a ſtanding old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat.
  9. Whiskey. countable,obsolete,slang,uncountable
  10. Coprophilia, scatophilia. countable,slang,uncountable
    — Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth.
动词 v.
  1. To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.
  2. To leave quickly. colloquial
    — Here comes the principal; we'd better scat.
感叹词 intj.
  1. An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent. colloquial
    — Scat! Go on! Get out of here!

词形变化

scats plural scatt alternative skatt alternative scats plural skat alternative skatt alternative scats plural scats plural scats present,singular,third-person scatting participle,present scatted participle,past scatted past scats present,singular,third-person scatting participle,present scatted participle,past scatted past scats plural

词汇关系

近义词
scag
衍生词
churchscot churchset scathead scathold scatland Japscat scatporn scatty
相关词
scatology scatological

词源

词源 1
From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth”), from Proto-Indo-European *skatn-, *skat- (“to jump, skip, splash out”).
Cognate with Scots scat (“tax, levy, charge, payment, bribe”), West Frisian skat (“treasure, darling”), Dutch schat (“treasure, hoard, darling, sweetheart”), German Schatz (“treasure, hoard, wealth, store, darling, sweetheart”), Swedish skatt (“treasure, tax, duty”), Icelandic skattur (“tax, tribute”), Latin scateō (“gush, team, bubble forth, abound”).
词源 2
Origin uncertain. Both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster suggest derivation from Ancient Greek σκῶρ (skôr, “excrement”), compare English scato-, but Random House Dictionary suggests that the popular character of the word makes this unlikely. Perhaps from English dialectal scat (“to scatter, fling, bespatter”), or an alteration of shit, which is also used for "drugs, heroin".
词源 3
Uncertain. The OED, which connects the senses "blow" and "shower" only tentatively, suggests that at least the former might be onomatopoeia. Dialectally, the word can also refer to "a spell" of any kind of weather, e.g. "a scat of fine weather", "a scat of frost".
词源 4
1920s, probably imitative.
词源 5
Mid 19th century:
* perhaps an abbreviation of scatter.
* perhaps representing a hiss followed by the word cat. Compare Swedish schas (“shoo, begone”).
* Alternatively, from the expression quicker than scat (“in a great hurry”),
* Possibly from scoot, from the root of shoot.
词源 6
From the taxonomic name of the family.
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