Synonyms for spat
spætspat

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1. bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fussnoun

   a quarrel about petty points

   Synonyms:
   squabble, dither, pettifoggery, hustle, flap, bicker, tiff, hassle, stir, flurry, bother, ado, tizzy, bustle, pother, gaiter, trouble, fuss, bickering

2. spat, gaiternoun

   a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles

   Synonyms:
   fuss, bicker, squabble, gaiter, tiff, bickering, pettifoggery

3. spatverb

   a young oyster or other bivalve

   Synonyms:
   squabble, tiff, fuss, pettifoggery, bickering, gaiter, bicker

4. spatverb

   come down like raindrops

   "Bullets were spatting down on us"

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, applaud

5. spatverb

   become permanently attached

   "mollusks or oysters spat"

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, applaud

6. spatverb

   strike with a sound like that of falling rain

   "Bullets were spatting the leaves"

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, applaud

7. applaud, clap, spat, acclaimverb

   clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, herald, applaud, hail

8. spatverb

   engage in a brief and petty quarrel

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, applaud

9. spatverb

   spawn

   "oysters spat"

   Synonyms:
   clap, acclaim, applaud

10. clap, spatverb

    clap one's hands together

    "The children were clapping to the music"

    Synonyms:
    acclaim, clap, applaud

Matched Categories

1. • Attach
   • Fall
   • Gesture
   • Hit
   • Legging
   • Quarrel
   • Spawn

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1. spatnoun

   Synonyms:
   [local, U. S.] petty dispute, petty quarrel, war of words

2. spatverb

   Synonyms:
   dispute, wrangle, quarrel, spar, bicker, jangle, squabble, TIFF, have words, have an altercation

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. spatnoun

   Synonyms:
   tiff, quarrel, dispute, dissension

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "spat":

   spatin, psat, spit, seed, brawl

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1. Stephen Innes:

   The U.S.-China trade spat has been at the center of the oil market demise, which has sent the global economy to the brink of recession and negatively impacted oil demand forecasts.

2. John Driscoll:

   The Chinese may just replace some of the American oil with Iranian crude, china isn't intimidated by the threat of U.S. sanctions. They haven't been in the past. So in this diplomatic spat they might just replace U.S. crude with Iranian oil. That would obviously infuriate Trump.

3. Nick Bisley:

   Until now it has been a diplomatic spat, we haven't seen it play out beyond the diplomatic and political realm, now it is imposing regulatory barriers without contravening the free trade agreement. We are going to see more of this and this will be the worst the relationship has been since diplomatic relations began.

4. Donald Trump:

   We're having a little spat with China and we'll win it, we put a lot of tariffs on China today, as President Donald Trump on Friday know. They put some on us, we put a lot on them.

5. Robert Sulek:

   I wish the government would think more carefully before starting campaigns like this, it's our wives who get spat on and have their veils ripped off in the street.