scat¹ /skat/ (informal)

(used orig and esp to animals) go away!

To scare away

To go away quickly

scat² /skat/ (jazz)

The use of nonsense syllables and other wordless effects in singing (also adjective)

To sing in this way

scat³ or skat /skat/

An animal-dropping

scatologˈical adjective

scatolˈogy noun

1. The scientific study of excrement, as in (pathology) diagnosis by study of the faeces, or (palaeontology) classification or identification of fossils by study of their fossilized excrement
2. Obscene literature
3. Interest in or preoccupation with the obscene

scatophˈagous adjective

(see -phagous under phag-) dung-eating

scatophˈagy /-ji/ noun

The practice of feeding on dung

scat⁴ /skat/

A small brightly-coloured marine fish of the family Scatophagidae, often living around sewage

scat⁵, scatt or skat /skat/ (historical)

1. Tribute
2. A tax
3. Esp a udaller's land tax, in Orkney and Shetland, paid to the Crown

scat⁶ or skatt /skat/ (Devon and Cornish dialect)

1. A blow
2. A throw or break
3. A spell
4. A sudden rain shower

1. In collapse
2. To bankruptcy

scattˈing noun

Pebble-dashing

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