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▪ I. shet, shed|ʃɛt, ʃɛd| repr. a U.S. dial. and colloq. pronunc. of shut v. and ppl. a., esp. in phrase to get (be, stay) shet of (see shut v. 11 a).
1837A. Sherwood Gazetteer of State of Georgia (ed. 3) 70/1 Get shet of, for get rid of. 1848, etc. [see open-and-shut s.v. open a. 22 c]. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master (1872) xxxii. 162 I'm glad to be shed of you! 1930G. B. Johnson in B. A. Botkin Folk-Say vii. 357 The Negro raises..‘great big’ hogs, and tries to ‘get shet of’ his enemies, just as poor white folk have done for hundreds of years. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. iii. 77 Throw mah trunk out befo' you shet up dat place! 1943E. Caldwell Georgia Boy 80, I thought you was trying to get shed of it. 1974State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 15 Feb. 1–B/1 A gentleman at the coffee counter began munching his hamburger a whole lot slower yesterday when the waitress admitted she just couldn't ‘get shet’ of her strep throat. 1976Verbatim Sept. 8/1 The range of his scholarship and the deftness of his intuition..are bound in an engaging prose style that makes a reader grateful to be shet for a while of the orthodox taxonomist. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 726 ‘Turlocks hate us colored,’ he warned his daughters, ‘so the smart thing, stay shed of 'em... Just you stay clear, like me, an' you find no trouble. ▪ II. shet dial. var. sheat n.1 (young hog); obs. f. sheet n.2, shut; obs. pa. tense of shoot. |