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# scat

«scat» in Mova's school dictionary: **a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

interjection; verb (scat, scats, scatted, scatting) (informal, old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «Scat!» is a shout to make an animal or a pest go away quickly: shoo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/#m1)

2) To scat is to run away quickly, to dash off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories «scat!» is shouted to chase a creature away; «scooted» and «scatted» mean ran off quickly

### examples

- Scat, you cat! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/#x1)
- When Miss Rabbit said «scat», they scatted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/#x2)
- The mice scatted off the table when the cat came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; «scattered» in a sum is a different word, meaning spread about

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scat» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scat/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.