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Slapping vs Sapping - What's the difference?

slapping | sapping |

As verbs the difference between slapping and sapping

is that slapping is while sapping is .

As nouns the difference between slapping and sapping

is that slapping is the act of giving a slap or slaps while sapping is the act by which something is sapped or depleted.

As an adjective slapping

is (slang) very large; whopping.

slapping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of giving a slap or slaps.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (slang) Very large; whopping.
  • * 1921 , Dogdom: Monthly: Volume 22
    • It remains to be seen whether she will retain her coat after whelping; if she does, then Americans will be able to admire a slapping great collie bitch — a matron of the robust kind yet retaining all those graces of the collie female of quality.

    sapping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
  • * (Joseph Story)
    • [The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption.