Slapping vs Tapping - What's the difference?
slapping | tapping |
(slang) Very large; whopping.
* 1921 , Dogdom: Monthly: Volume 22
An act of making a light hit or strike against something.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 20
*:As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over and opened it...
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 26, author=Alastair Macaulay, title=Leading the Audience Into Flamenco’s Heart, work=New York Times
, passage=She has rapid and powerful footwork, but she doesn’t wow you with any special trills or woodpecker tappings . }}
(music) A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard
In lang=en terms the difference between slapping and tapping
is that slapping is very large; whopping while tapping is a guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard.As an adjective slapping
is very large; whopping.slapping
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
tapping
English
Noun
(wikipedia tapping) (en noun)citation