shat

Meanings

Verb

• Past of shit

Noun

• Alternative of chott
• Synonym of shatter.

Origin

• A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century.
• Arabic شَطّ; see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
• Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle, but more likely a shortening of the synonymous shatter.