Wattle vs Swattle - What's the difference?
wattle | swattle |
A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
* Tennyson
A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
A barbel of a fish.
A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia , or their bark, used in tanning.
To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
English terms with homophones
(British) (northern dialect ) To splutter; to guzzle
(British) To fritter away
As verbs the difference between wattle and swattle
is that wattle is to construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles while swattle is (british) (northern dialect ) to splutter; to guzzle.As a noun wattle
is a construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.wattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
