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name
Nickname for Skelmanthorpe: a large village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees borough, West Yorkshire, England.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Yorkshire, colloquial
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noun
Alternative form of chott.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Synonym of shatter (“a pine needle”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: chiefly Maryland; Delaware; chiefly Maryland; Delaware
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Synonyms: shatter
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verb
simple past and past participle of shit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
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History
Named after the Shatterers, from shatterer, a group of labourers hired to "shatter" (break) rocks during the construction of local railway and deep cuttings in the 19th century. Some locals also suggest this nickname referred to Luddites who met at the local Chartist pub to break (shatter) looms.
From Arabic شَطّ (šaṭṭ); see chott; for the spelling, compare Shatt al-Arab.
Sometimes said to be a shortening of an obsolete word (*)shattle (“needle”), but more likely a shortening of the synonymous (pine) shatter.
A late innovation, apparently by analogy with sit → sat; spit → spat, etc. First recorded in the eighteenth century. Compare Old English sċāt.
