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"A tax; tribute."
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"A land-tax paid in the Shetland Islands."
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"ref": "2014 September 22, James Gorman, “For polar bears, a climate change twist [print version: For hungry polar bears, a climate change twist, International New York Times, 24 September 2014, p 12]”, in The New York Times",
"text": "They turned to polar bear feces, or scat, as it is commonly called. […] She and Quinoa [a dog] worked with Dr. Rockwell to collect and study samples of polar bear scat for several years and found that the bears were eating lots of geese.",
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"text": "2018 Brent Butt as Brent Herbert Leroy, \"Sasquatch Your Language\", Corner Gas Animated\nWherever legitimate tracks are found there's always some fresh scat, y'know, poo, flop, dumplings."
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"(slang) Heroin."
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"(slang, obsolete) Whiskey."
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"ref": "1988, “Pete”, quoted in Seymour Kleinberg, Alienated Affections: Being Gay in America, Macmillan, page 183",
"text": "Enema queens, like scat queens, are really the scum of the earth."
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"ref": "1998, Dennis Cooper, Guide, Grove Press, page 170",
"text": "[…] I hear he’s into S&M and scat and all kinds of kinky shit. […]",
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"ref": "2004, Phineas Mollod, Jason Tesauro, The Modern Lover: A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers, Ten Speed Press, page 72",
"text": "In short, when venturing into the realm of extreme fetish, ensure you have an extreme understanding of a partner’s boundaries before laying down a plastic tarp for scat play.",
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"ref": "1759, Andrew Brice, The Grand Gazetteer, or Topographic Dictionary, page 677",
"text": "Low black Clouds on it being ſoppoſed to prognoſticate Rain in the Places beneath it, it has been a ſtanding old Saw, When Haldon hath a Hat, Kenton beware a Skat.",
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"ref": "2013, Eldot, The Champions, page 245",
"text": "We have to scat! Oh-oh—I forgot to look at the clock!",
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"word": "kxodjįʼ"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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