Usually means: Arguing over trivial matters loudly.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. spatting: Merriam-Webster
  2. spatting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spatting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spatting: Vocabulary.com
  5. spatting: Wordnik
  6. spatting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. spatting: Wiktionary
  8. spatting: Dictionary.com
  9. Spatting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Spatting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. spatting: FreeDictionary.org
  12. spatting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spatting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spatting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spatting: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spat)

noun:  The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
noun:  A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To spawn, used of shellfish as above.
noun:  (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
noun:  (automotive, UK, Australia) A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.
noun:  (aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.
noun:  A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.
verb:  (originally US, intransitive) To quarrel or argue briefly.
noun:  A light blow with something flat.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive) To strike with a spattering sound.
verb:  (US, dialect) To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.
noun:  An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.
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