gat
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Etymology 1 edit
From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
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gat (plural gats)
- (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
- (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
- Synonyms: piece; see also Thesaurus:firearm
- 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, performed by Dr. Dre, Death Row Records:
- It'll make you drop to your knees 'cause you realize, that a gat'll make any nigga civilized.
- 1994, 1:45 from the start, in Juicy[1] (Hip Hop), spoken by The Notorious B.I.G.:
- I never thought it could happen, this rappin' stuff
I was too used to packin' gats and stuff
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 115:
- Pimp pulled out his gat and let it hang in his hand. His message was clear.
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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[sic] accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.
Etymology 2 edit
From guitar, by shortening.
Noun edit
gat (plural gats)
- (New Zealand, slang) A guitar
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gat
- (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past of get
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 19:27:
- And Abraham gat up early in the morning
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gat (plural gats)
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gat (plural gats)
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Etymology edit
From Dutch gat (“hole, gap; arse”), from Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
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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
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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.
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- (backside, ass): agterstewe, blaker, stert
- (anus): hol, poephol
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan gat, from Late Latin cattus (“cat”). Compare Occitan gat~cat, French chat, Spanish gato.
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gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)
- cat (feline animal)
- jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
- A catshark, especially the small-spotted catshark.
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- 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 lleopard
- gat mesquer
- gat ratllat
- gat salvatge
- gatada
- gatassa
- gatinar
- gatinyar-se
- gatmaimó
- gató
- gatvaire
- haver-hi gat amagat
- quatre gats
- semblar un gat escorxat
- tenir el gat
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Adjective edit
gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)
References edit
- “gat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “gat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
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Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Doublet of gate.
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gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)
- gap, hole
- Synonyms: hol, opening
- Het kind viel door een gat in de omheining.
- The child fell through a gap in the fence.
- Er zit een groot gat in de muur na het verwijderen van het schilderij.
- There is a big hole in the wall after removing the painting.
- Het lek in het dak veroorzaakte een gat waar het water naar binnen stroomde.
- The leak in the roof caused a gap where the water flowed in.
- godforsaken place, hamlet
- Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens
- (archaic) port
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- Afrikaans: gat
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gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)
- (vulgar) arsehole
- (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).
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- buitengaats
- gaatels
- gatenkaas
- gatenteil
- gatlikker
- knoopsgat
- mangat
- praatjes vullen geen gaatjes
- 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”)
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Icelandic edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.
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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.
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- 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 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
gat
- first-person singular active present indicative of geta
- Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.
- I couldn't stop her.
- third-person singular active present indicative of geta
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Lombard edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin cattus ("cat"), cognate to Ligurian Italian gatto, Catalan and Piedmontese gat, Spanish gato.
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gat m (masculine plural gatj, feminine singular gata, feminine plural gate)
Lower Sorbian edit
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From Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Serbo-Croatian gat (“ditch, dam”).
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gat m inan (diminutive gaśik)
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Further reading edit
- 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 Creole edit
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gat
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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gat
- Alternative form of gate (“gate”)
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gat
- Alternative form of gate (“way”)
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gat
- (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of goot
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gat
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gat n (definite singular gatet, indefinite plural gat, definite plural gata or gati)
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gat
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From Old Occitan, from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat). See cat for more.
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gat m (plural gats, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)
- a cat
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Old English edit
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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”).
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gāt f
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Old Norse edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *gatą
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gat n
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- Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt
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gat
References edit
- “gat”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Romagnol edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.
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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:
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hungarian gát, from Proto-Slavic *gatь.
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gat n (plural gaturi)
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From Late Latin cattus.
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gat m (plural gats)
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited 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”).
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gȁt m (Cyrillic spelling га̏т)
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Further reading edit
- “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal
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gat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔)
- Alternative letter-case form of Gat
Further reading edit
- “gat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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gat
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Venetian edit
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- gato (Standard)
Etymology edit
Compare Venetian gato and Italian gatto.
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gat m (plural gati)
- (Belluno, Northern Treviso, Chipilo) cat