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for scat
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scat \Scat\ (sk[a^]t), interj.
Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.
[1913 Webster] Scat
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scat \Scat\, Scatt \Scatt\, n. [Icel. skattr.]
Tribute. [R.] "Seizing scatt and treasure." --Longfellow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Scat \Scat\, n.
A shower of rain. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
scat
n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for
the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical
instrument [syn: scat, scat singing]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam,
run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills,
take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break
away]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
53 Moby Thesaurus words for "scat":
baloney, bel canto, bilge, blah, blah-blah, bop, bosh, bravura,
bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, choral singing, coloratura, crap,
croon, crooning, flapdoodle, folk singing, gas, guff, gup, hogwash,
hokum, hooey, hot air, hum, humming, intonation, lyricism,
malarkey, moonshine, operatic singing, piffle, poppycock, rot,
scat singing, shit, singing, sol-fa, sol-fa exercise, solfeggio,
solmization, song, tommyrot, tonic sol-fa, tripe, vocal music,
vocalization, warbling, wind, yodel, yodeling
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