FromOld English spittan spætan
spat
simplepast andpast participle ofspit There was no sink in the room so wespat out the window.
If I had known you had aspittoon in the corner I would never havespat on the floor. Uncertain; perhaps related tospit
spat (countable anduncountable plural spats
Thespawn ofshellfish , especiallyoysters and similarmolluscs .2005 Aquaculture: Principles and practices , page525 :As spat-fall often occurs in areas away from environments suitable for oyster growing, the collection, transport and sale of oysterspat has developed into a separate industry.
2018 Tim Flannery ,Europe: A Natural History , page243 :But Orata’s oysters were, like the dormice and fish, collected in the wild, asspat .
A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.2011 The Pearl Oyster [1] 256 :Conditions in pearl oyster hatcheries are optimized for growth and survival ofspat .
1988 Bivalve Mollusc Culture Research in Thailand [2] 28 :If thespat are allowed to remain attached to the tank bottom for more than two days, they are difficult to remove without damage to the shell.
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spat (third-person singular simple present spats present participle spatting simple past and past participle spatted
( ambitransitive ) shellfish as above.Shortening ofspatterdash spatter dash
A felt spat Australian 1970s Holden Kingswood with spats spat (plural spats
( often in theplural ) shoe .Coordinate term: gaiter ( automotive , UK , Australia ) bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.Synonym: ( US ) fender skirt ( aviation ) drag -reducing aerodynamicfairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of anaeroplane equipped with non-retractablelanding gear .covering worn over a shoe
automotive: piece of bodywork
1804. American English, probablyimitative .
spat (plural spats
A briefargument ,falling out ,quarrel .get into a trivialspat over punctuality
have a viciousspat with the cousins
2017 January 14, “Some Thais worry that a lasting power struggle is brewing. Others see a minorspat over language, which will quickly be forgotten.”, inThe Economist [3] 2022 November 16, Graham Eccles, “The Rest Day Working saga...”, inRAIL , number970 , page32 :The downside of this cost-saving strategy was that the train service could only be covered by goodwill. Whenever there was aspat between ASLEF and management - regardless of cause - the withdrawal of this goodwill became a stick with which unions could beat management.
quarrel
Bulgarian:леко скарване ( leko skarvane ) Dutch:ruzie (nl) Finnish:kina (fi) ,kahina (fi) ,kärhämä (fi) German:Wortwechsel (de) m Zank (de) m Streit (de) m Auseinandersetzung (de) f Italian:disputa (it) f dissidio (it) m Polish:sprzeczka (pl) f Portuguese:briga (pt) f Russian:спор (ru) m ( spor ) ,размо́лвка (ru) f ( razmólvka ) ,ссо́ра (ru) f ( ssóra ) ,перебра́нка (ru) f ( perebránka ) Spanish:altercado (es) m rifirrafe m ( colloquial ) Swedish:gräl (sv)
spat (third-person singular simple present spats present participle spatting simple past and past participle spatted
( intransitive , originally US ) quarrel orargue pettily briefly.Synonyms: tiff see also Thesaurus:squabble Attested from 1823.
spat (plural spats
A light blow with something flat. light blow with something flat
spat (third-person singular simple present spats present participle spatting simple past and past participle spatted
( transitive and intransitive ) strike with aspattering sound.1922 B. M. Bower , chapter 3, inThe Trail of the White Mule :He felt the wind of a second bullet thatspatted against a boulder near Barney.
2007 July 13, Nolan Clay, “Co-workers testify about Kelsey's mother ”, inDaily Oklahoman , retrieved 25 Aug. 2009:"She mentioned she hadspatted Kelsey on her diaper with a hairbrush," said Mildred Johnson, a co-worker.
( US , dialect ) slap , as with the open hand; toclap together, as the hands.1845 Sylvester Judd ,Margaret :Little Isabel leaped up and down,spatting her hands.
to strike with spattering sound
FromLatin spatium ( “ space ” ) .
spat (plural spats
Anobsolete unit ofdistance inastronomy (symbolS ), equal to onebillion kilometres . ATSP PTSA TAPs past ap'ts PATs Apts TAPS PSAT taps APTs apts. ATPs TPAs ptas. Pats stap PTAs pats APTS apts Taps FromProto-Austronesian *Səpat
spat
four FromMiddle Low German spat German Spat Swedish spatt
spat c singular definite spatten not used in plural form )
spavin ( disease of horses characterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones ) få spat – getannoyed orangry FromMiddle Dutch spat
spat m plural spatten nodiminutive )
( obsolete ) blowgun Synonyms: blaaspijp blaasroer Fromspatten
spat m plural spatten diminutive spatje n
spot ,speckle ,stain See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
spat
inflection ofspatten first / second / third-person singular present indicative imperative spat
supine ofspaś spat (Cyrillic spelling спат
alternative form ofspȁti 1993 Vinko Coce , “Mirno spavaj, ružo moja”:cili Trogir idespat the whole City of Trogir goesto sleep spat
( colloquial ) definite singular ofspad FromProto-Atayalic *səpat Proto-Austronesian *Səpat
spat
four 
