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Spatting vs Swatting - What's the difference?

spatting | swatting |

As verbs the difference between spatting and swatting

is that spatting is present participle of spat while swatting is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun swatting is

a motion or gesture that swats; a swat.

spatting

English

Verb

(head)

    • swatting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
  • * Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
    • This evoked a new disorder — a tendency to sudden, tic-like jabbings and swattings in the air, as if she were fending off flies or mosquitoes.
  • The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.