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Snapping vs Slapping - What's the difference?

snapping | slapping |

As verbs the difference between snapping and slapping

is that snapping is present participle of lang=en while slapping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between snapping and slapping

is that snapping is the sound or action of a snap while slapping is the act of giving a slap or slaps.

As an adjective slapping is

very large; whopping.

snapping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound or action of a snap.
  • * 1947 , Karl August Boman, Temporomandibular joint arthrosis and its treatment by extirpation of the disk
    • Snappings , audible or palpable, were noted in 45 cases (77 per cent). They were either heard in the course of the examination (about half), or were mentioned in the anamnesis.
  • The act of snapping at, or speaking sharply to, somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

    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.