Shatton (Sir Piercie).

In this character Sir Walter Scott has made familiar to us the euphuisms of Queen Elizabeth’s age. The fashionable cavalier or pedantic fop, who assumes the high-flown style rendered fashionable by Lyly, was grandson of old Overstitch the tailor. (Sir Walter Scott: Monastery.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Shack
Shaddock
Shades
Shadoff or Shadoof
Shadow
Shadow (To)
Shady
Shafalus
Shafites
Shaft
Shatton (Sir Piercie)
Shah
Shah-pour
Shahzada
Shakedown
Shakers
Shakes
Shakespeare
Shaking Hands
Shaky
Shallow