scat

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  1. intransitive verb Informal To go away hastily; leave at once.
  2. noun Jazz singing in which improvised, meaningless syllables are sung to a melody.
  3. intransitive verb To sing scat.
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  • Following it, he passed piles of little round pellets--scat--all cold. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • But Raven didn't see any flat piles of short-hair scat, and the grass seemed too long, unbothered by their stupid mouths. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
  • The intent is to allow easy access to these extensive checks without having to run Solaris CAT interactively. scat -- scat_explore In release 5.1, one can now run scat_explore in a quasi standalone mode using the —  Sun Bloggers
  • Brun said project biologist McCain ordered her to place the scat, although he has denied that.
  • So scat, all of you, and do your stuff And again, for days that lengthened slowly into weeks, the work went on One evening the scientific staff was giving itself a concert--a tri-di hi-fi rendition of Rigoletto_, one of the greatest of the ancient operas, sung by the finest voices Terra had ever known. —  Masters of Space
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  1. Also scatt, skatt; from Middle English scat (from Icelandic), *scet, *shet (cf. cherset), from Anglo-Saxon sceat, sceatt, scætt, a coin, money, tax (Middle Latin reflex scata, sceatta), = Old Saxon scat = OFries. sket, schet, a coin, money, wealth, cattle, = Dutch schat = Middle Low German schat = Old High German scaz, a coin, money, Middle High German schaz, German schatz, money, treasure, riches, treasury, = Icelandic skattr = Swedish skatt = Danish skat, tax, tribute, = Gothic (Moesogothic) skatts, a piece of money, money; perhaps related to Old Bulgarian skotŭ = Servian Bohemian Polish skot, cattle, = Russian skot, cattle, ORuss. also money (cf. Latin pecunia, money, as related to pecus, cattle, and Anglo-Saxon feoh, cattle, fee: see pecuniary and fee), but the Old Bulgarian word, if related, may be borrowed from the Teutonic The word scot is of different origin.
  2. Formerly also skatt; not related, unless by corruption, with scud, a flying shower: see scud.
  3. apparently an irreg. form of scath, scathe, but perhaps a deflected use of scat, ‘tax,’ hence ‘damage.’
  4. Perhaps an interjectional form of scoot or scout, ult. from the root of shoot; usually addressed to a cat, pronounced 'sss-cat! and understood to consist of the word cat with a sibilant prefix. Cf. Swedish schas, up, begone.
  5. from scat, interj.
 

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