scat

Significat (English)

Noun

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

Verb

To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments.

Verb

To leave quickly.

Intj

An imperative demand to leave, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent.

Synonyms

run away

break away

scat singing

run

turn tail

escape

head for the hills

take to the woods

beat it

scarper

fly the coop

hightail it

lam

bunk

cheese it

fecal matter

shite

sling your hook

begone

crap

dirt

dung

excrement

feces

get lost

ordure

poop

💩

scram

shit

💩

stool

turd

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skæt/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: scet

Inherited from anglès antic: sċeatt

Cognate with escocès: scat

Cognate with frisó occidental: skat

Cognate with neerlandès: schat

Cognate with alemany: Schatz

Cognate with suec: skatt

Cognate with islandès: skattur

Cognate with llatí: scateō

Cognate with anglès: scato-

Cognate with suec: schas

In summary

From Middle English scet, schat, from Old English sċeatt (“property, goods, owndom, wealth, treasure; payment, price, gift, bribe, tax, tribute, money, goods, reward, rent, a tithe; a piece of money, a coin; denarius, twentieth part of a shilling”) and Old Norse skattr (“wealth, treaure, tax, tribute, coin”); both from Proto-Germanic *skattaz (“cattle, kine, wealth, owndom, goods, hoard, treasure, geld, money”), 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”).