scat

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

scat, interj. 

 Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.  [1913 Webster]

scat, n. [Icel. skattr.].

 Tribute.  Longfellow.  [1913 Webster]

scat, n. 

 A shower of rain.  Wright.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scat, v. & int. colloq.
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) depart quickly.
--int. go!

scat, n. & v.
--n. improvised jazz singing using sounds imitating instruments, instead of words.
--v.intr. (scatted, scatting) sing scat.

Etymology

prob. imit.

THESAURUS

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