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   spat

   /spat/

   noun

   • 1. a quarrel about an unimportant matter: "when we had our little spats, he had only to smile to get back on the right side of me"

   verb

   • 1. quarrel about an unimportant matter: "people expected him and his wife to spat continually"

   Word Origin early 19th century (originally a US colloquial usage): probably imitative.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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   Is spat a verb or a noun?

   • In case of no. 2 conjugation, it's when it means "to pierce something like a meat" For 'spat', spat is also a noun and a verb as well, which means a trivial fight or have a trivial fight. As a verb, the word 'spat's past and past participle are "spatted". So it's a totally diffrent word from the 'spit's conjugations above of no. 1, 2, and 3.

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   Is spitted a tense?

   • 2 sounds completely wrong here. "Spitted" is the past tense of the word "to spit" (transitive) where "spit" means "to spit a piece of meat for roasting on a fire". But when used as the past tense of "to spit saliva from the mouth" it sounds like the sort of thing a young child would say before being corrected by an adult.

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   How often does a spat reemerge?

   • Every so often, the spat between the two digital operations reemerges. We see a couple shouting or arguing or something, we don’t know is this really an emergency, or is this just two people having a spat. Upstairs, in the living room, splintered logs of hemlock cackled and spat from inside the wood stove.

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   The meaning of SPAT is past tense and past participle of spit. How to use spat in a sentence.

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   spat noun (ARGUMENT) [ C ] informal. a short argument, usually about something that is not important: She was having a spat with her brother about who should do the washing up. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

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   The spat is usually over something as silly as which partner has to do the laundry, and the relationship usually recovers quickly, with no long-term harm done. For the purposes of this definition, the noun spat refers to a minor argument or mild bickering.

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   verb (used without object) , spat·ted, spat·ting. to engage in a petty quarrel or dispute. to splash or spatter; rain spatting against the window.

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   spat. noun. 1. A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed: altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, squabble, tiff, word (used in plural), wrangle. Informal: hassle, rhubarb, tangle.

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   1. Spat is the past tense and past participle of spit. A spat between people, countries, or organizations is a disagreement between them. ...a spat between America and Germany over interest rates and currencies.

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