shath

English

Etymology

Blend of shower +‎ bath.

Noun

shath (plural shaths)

1. (informal) A combination shower and bath.
   • 2013 October 15, Shobhaa De, Sultry Days‎, reprint edition, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

     I don't do anything for them. Vikki does everything—bath-shath, breakfast, potty, dropping, fetching. He's the one who goes for Open Day, sports, dramatics, all that nonsense. Where do I have the time?

   • 2016 July 11, Rosalind Scott, Aweigh with My Mother-in-Law!: Adventures Afloat and Ashore with the World's Most Infuriating Passenger‎, Mereo Books, →ISBN, page 211:

     The shower did have its day. When it was too rough to take a proper shower, I took a ‘shath’, or a ‘bower’. Take your pick. Anyway, the shower did extremely well while I sat in the bath as the force was so little it was more controllable and I was scrunched up, so I was easier to soak.

   • 2018 April 10, Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     The bathroom has a small tub and no shower, just a smooth hose attached to the faucet and hanging limply downward, a neck bent in defeat. “You don't have a shower,” I say, walking back out and feeling the sudden intimacy of being in his space. It's all so quintessentially him: sparse furniture other than floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with books. Elliot watches me as I lean against the hallway wall. The space is tiny, and he seems to fill it with his height and the solid width of his chest. “I don't know if I could handle only having a bathtub,” I babble. “I call it a shath,” he says. “That sounds dirty.”

   • 2021 April 11, Ted Travelstead, “Keep Beef-lievin' Adventure” (1:25 from the start), in The Great North‎, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Honeybee Shaw (Dulcé Sloan):

     “Do both. Like when I can't decide between a bath or a shower, I call it a "shath."”

   • 2021 December 29, Laban Ditchburn, “The Angel of Death”, in Bet on You‎, Laban Ditchburn, →ISBN, page 71:

     I hopped into the shower bath (shath?) and enjoyed some momentary relief as the warm water seemed to help.

   • 2023 August 8, James Bird, No Place Like Home‎, Feiwel & Friends, →ISBN:

     Rad, there's a shower that is also a bath. A bower. A shath. Whatever it's called, I can't wait to use it.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:shath.

Lower Tanana

Alternative forms

• shaɬ (Toklat-Bearpaw)

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *x̯ẻˑnʼc̃ʼ. Cognate with Navajo sęęs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃæθ/

Noun

shath (third person possessed form beshadha')

1. wart

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 341