spat
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /spæt/
- Simple past tense and past participle of spit
- There was no sink in the room so we spat out the window.
- If I had known you had a spittoon in the corner I would never have spat on the floor.
spat (uncountable)
- The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
- 2005, TVR Pillay & MN Kutty, Aquaculture: Principles and practices, p. 525:
- As spat-fall often occurs in areas away from environments suitable for oyster growing, the collection, transport and sale of oyster spat has developed into a separate industry.
- 2005, TVR Pillay & MN Kutty, Aquaculture: Principles and practices, p. 525:
- A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
spat (spats, present participle spatting; past and past participle spatted)
- (ambitransitive) To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.
spat (plural spats)
- A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
- (automotive) (UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
- (automotive) fender skirt (US)
- French: guêtre
- German: Gamasche, Überschuh
- Italian: uose
- Portuguese: polaina
- Russian: ге́тра
- Spanish: polaina
- German: Kotflügel
spat (plural spats)
- a brief argument, falling out, quarrel
- German: Wortwechsel, Zank, Streit, Auseinandersetzung
- Italian: disputa, dissidio
- Portuguese: briga
- Russian: спор
- Spanish: altercado, rifirrafe
spat (spats, present participle spatting; past and past participle spatted)
Translations- German: zanken, streiten, sich fetzen
- Russian: брани́ться
- Spanish: altercar, malentender
spat (plural spats)
- A light blow with something flat.
spat (spats, present participle spatting; past and past participle spatted)
- (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
- 1922, B. M. Bower, The Trail of the White Mule, ch. 3:
- He felt the wind of a second bullet that spatted against a boulder near Barney.
- 2007, Nolan Clay, "Co-workers testify about Kelsey's mother ↗," Daily Oklahoman, 13 July, (retrieved 25 Aug. 2009):
- "She mentioned she had spatted Kelsey on her diaper with a hairbrush," said Mildred Johnson, a co-worker.
- 1922, B. M. Bower, The Trail of the White Mule, ch. 3:
- (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
- Little Isabel leaped up and down, spatting her hands.
- German: prasseln
- Russian: шлёпать
spat (plural spats)
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