Shat

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ʃæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Origin

A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat.

Bruce L. Derwing, Royal Skousen, Productivity and the English Past Tense, in The Reality of Linguistic Rules, page 202

Survival of the Strongest, in Studies in the History of the English Language V (2010, ISBN 3110220326), page 101: What may come as a surprise, depending on the framework in which one operates, is that sit must have been largely responsible for the preterite shat of shit and probably the preterite spat of spit. Shit should conjugate shite~shote, and spit was originally weak (OED).

First recorded in the eighteenth century.

Verb

1. shat

   (past 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 Schloss, I just shat in your shoe.

Anagrams

• hast
• hats
• Tash