swat
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- Rhymes: -ɒt
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swat (third-person singular simple present swats, present participle swatting, simple past and past participle swatted)
- (transitive or intransitive) to beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit.
- He swatted the mosquito that was buzzing around in his bedroom.
- The cat swatted at the feather.
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to beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit
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swat (plural swats)
- a hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking.
- the exchange, in turns, of swats, usually with a paddle and to the (sometimes bared) buttocks, either as a macho dare or imposed as a 'self-inflicted' corporal punishment or as part of a fraternity-type hazing.
- (slang) a school pupil thought to be more intelligent than the other members of the class, who shows off his or her ability to its full.
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a hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g., as part of a spanking
the exchange, in turns, of swats
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From Proto-Germanic *swait-, from Proto-Indo-European *swoid-.
Cognate with Old Saxon swêt (Dutch zweet), Old High German sweiz (German Schweiß ‘sweat’), Old Norse sveiti ‘sweat, blood’ (Swedish svett, Danish sved), Sanskrit स्वेद (sveda). The Indo-European root also gave Latin sudor.
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- IPA: /swaːt/
[edit] Noun
swāt m.
