different between shat vs sheat

English

Etymology 1

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit ? sat; spit ? spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Verb

shat

1. simple past tense and past participle of shit
   • 1999, Julian O'Neill, quoted in Peter Moss, "Let He Without Sin Kick The First Goal", in Workers Online number 12 (1999 May 7):

     Hey Schlossie [=Jeremy Schloss], I just shat in your shoe.

Etymology 2

Arabic ????? (ša??); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. Alternative form of chott
   • 1902, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tenth Edition; […] , page 482:

     All this region round the shats has been called the “Jerid” from the time of the Arab occupation.

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

shat (plural shats)

1. (chiefly Maryland, Delaware) Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
   • 1921, Whitelock vs Dennis (decision on appeal), in the Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of Maryland, page 559:

     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.

   • 2012, Rob Wilgus, Sickle, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN), page 225:

     A small, well known, pine shat covered path pushed between two rows of trees.

References

Anagrams

• ATHs, HATs, Tash, has't, hast, hats, tash, thas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• shatë

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *?akt?, from Proto-Indo-European *s?k-teh?-, from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate to Latin secula (“sickle”), sacena (“pick-axe of the pontifix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

shat m (indefinite plural shata)

1. heart-shaped hoe, mattock

References

Hausa

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Noun

shât f

1. shirt

Kriol

Etymology

From English shot

Noun

shat

1. attempt

English

Noun

sheat (plural sheats)

1. A sheatfish

Translations

Anagrams

• ashet, haets, haste, hates, heast, heats, hetas, sateh