gat
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
NounEdit
gat (plural gats)
- (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
- (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
- You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.
- 1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton:
- Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
With a gat that's pointed at yo ass
- 1992, “A Nigga Witta Gun”, in The Chronic, Death Row Records, performed by Dr. Dre:
- It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.
- 1994, Juicy[1] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G., 1:45 from the start:
- I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff
I was too used to packin' gats and stuff
TranslationsEdit
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VerbEdit
gat (third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)
- (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
- 2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27:
- He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.
- 2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock, page 293:
- Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.
- 2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:
- Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.
Etymology 2Edit
From guitar, by shortening.
NounEdit
gat (plural gats)
- (New Zealand, slang) A guitar
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
gat
- (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past tense of get
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:27:
- And Abraham gat up early in the morning
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
gat (plural gats)
Etymology 5Edit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
gat (plural gats)
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch gat (“hole, gap; arse”), from Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat (plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)
- hole; perforation
- gap; opening
- Hy't 'n gat in sy opvoeding.
- He has a gap in his education.
- hole or hollowed out area used as a shelter or home by animals
- (figuratively) dump; a run-down living space, room or house
- Jinne! Jy bly in 'n gat!
- Man! You live in a dump!
- (golf) hole; cup
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)
- (vulgar) anus
- (crude) rump; buttocks; bum; ass; backside of a human
- Sit op jou gat!
- Sit on your ass!
- the backside of animals or objects
- Die olifant staan met sy gat na ons toe.
- The elephant is standing with his backside turned to us.
SynonymsEdit
- (backside, ass): agterstewe, blaker, stert
- (anus): hol, poephol
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Old Catalan gat, from Late Latin cattus (“cat”). Compare Occitan gat~cat, French chat, Spanish gato.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- agafar el gat
- donar gat per llebre
- el gat i la rata
- esgatinyar-se
- estar com el gat i el gos
- gat cerval
- gat d'algàlia
- gat de mar
- gat dels frares
- gat escaldat amb aigua tèbia en té prou
- gat fer
- gat mesquer
- gat salvatge
- gatada
- gatassa
- gatinada
- gatinyar-se
- gatmaimó
- gatonera
- haver-hi gat amagat
- quatre gats
- semblar un gat escorxat
- tenir el gat
Related termsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)
ReferencesEdit
- “gat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “gat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “gat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Doublet of gate.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)
- gap, hole
- godforsaken place, hamlet
- Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens
- (archaic) port
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: gat
NounEdit
gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)
- (vulgar) arsehole, asshole
- (by extension, informal) the buttocks, butt, bum, rear-end, bottom of a person or animal
- "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).
- Het regent, het regent, / de pannetjes worden nat. / Er kwamen twee soldaatjes aan, / die vielen op hun gat.
- It's raining, it's raining, / the roof tiles are getting wet. / Two soldiers were coming near, / who fell on their buttocks.
- Synonym: achterste
- "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).
Derived termsEdit
- buitengaats
- gaatels
- gatenkaas
- gatenteil
- gatlikker
- knoopsgat
- mangat
- witgat
- er geen gat in zien (“to see no way out”)
- in de gaten (“with an eye on”)
- niet voor één gat te vangen (“resourceful, slippery”)
DescendantsEdit
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
NounEdit
gat n (genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)
- hole, perforation (an opening through a solid body)
- Hann notaði skóna þangað til komið var gat á þá.
- He used the shoes until they had got a hole in them.
- (colloquial, school) a gap in a fixed schedule, an unassigned time in the schedule, usually between classes; break, free period
- Ég er í gati milli níu og hálfellefu á fimmtudögum.
- I have a break between nine and half past ten on Thursdays.
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- standa á gati (to be unable to answer a question, to be at a loss)
- reka einhvern á gat (to stump somebody, to ask somebody a question he cannot answer)
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
gat
- first-person singular active present indicative of geta
- Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.
- I couldn't stop her.
- Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.
- third-person singular active present indicative of geta
See alsoEdit
LombardEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin cattus ("cat"), cognate to Ligurian Italian gatto, Catalan and Piedmontese gat, Spanish gato.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (masculine plural gatj, feminine singular gata, feminine plural gate)
Lower SorbianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Serbo-Croatian gat (“ditch, dam”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (diminutive gaśik)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “gat”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999), “gat”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Mauritian CreoleEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
gat
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
gat
- Alternative form of gate (“gate”)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
gat
- Alternative form of gate (“way”)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
gat
- (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of goot
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
gat
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
gat n (definite singular gatet, indefinite plural gat, definite plural gata or gati)
NuerEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan, from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat). See cat for more.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (plural gats, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)
- a cat
Related termsEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *gaits. Cognate with Old Frisian *gāt, Old Saxon gēt, Old Dutch *geit, Old High German geiz, Old Norse geit, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gāt f
DeclensionEdit
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Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Old NorseEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *gatą
NounEdit
gat n
DescendantsEdit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
gat
ReferencesEdit
- “gat”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
RomagnolEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (plural ghët)
- cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)
- December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:
- S'i padrùn gio tla pianura,\ chi por gat j è armast te' ghét,\ in s'è mòs da meda tl'éra,\ a raspè mla porta tchjusa.
- December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
gat n (plural gaturi)
DeclensionEdit
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- giat (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin cattus.
NounEdit
gat m (plural gats)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Slovak hať (“dam”), Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Lower Sorbian gat (“pond, dam”), and Russian гать (gatʹ, “causeway”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gȁt m (Cyrillic spelling га̏т)
DeclensionEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal
TagalogEdit
NounEdit
gat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔)
- Alternative letter-case form of Gat
Further readingEdit
- “gat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
Tok PisinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
gat
Derived termsEdit
VenetianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- gato (Standard)
EtymologyEdit
Compare Venetian gato and Italian gatto.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
gat m (plural gati)
- (Belluno, Northern Treviso, Chipilo) cat