Scat has many, many uses. The most common definition, probably due to the plague that was Scatman John, is improvised vocals in Jazz. Also, according to dictionary.com it refers to “leaving hastily”. We’ll get back to this, but first I must tell you how it refers to sex, and you are not going to happy. Okay, here we go. Scat also refers to animal dung (oh no…) and has been adopted by a genre of pornographic movie that involves poop (no!). Yes.
Okay, now that that’s out of the way, the Newfoundland meaning of scat (also scad and skad, two much less saucy terms) is related to “leaving hastily”, but specifically to two types of weather: a snow or rain shower that comes and go rather quickly, or a thin layer of snow on the ground, presumably left by said shower.
And now I feel like I need a shower.
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wayne // June 1, 2008 at 11:12 am |
any relationship to the phrase “scadaddle?”
D.C. // July 16, 2008 at 11:11 am |
Also, I would like to point out that Scat is also a card game. I don’t know how popular, but I play it all the time.