clap vs spat

clap

verb
  • To slap with the hand in a jovial manner. 

  • To fornicate, copulate. 

  • To create or assemble (something) hastily (usually followed by up or together). 

  • To shoot (somebody) with a gun. 

  • To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. 

  • To applaud. 

  • To have sex. 

  • To bring two surfaces together forcefully, creating a sharp sound. 

  • To set or put, usually in haste. 

noun
  • The act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together. 

  • A single, sudden act or motion; a stroke; a blow. 

  • A dropping of cow dung (presumably from the sound made as it hits the ground) 

  • Any loud, sudden, explosive sound made by striking hard surfaces together, or resembling such a sound. 

  • The nether part of the beak of a hawk. 

  • The explosive sound of thunder. 

  • Gonorrhea. 

  • A slap with the hand, usually in a jovial manner. 

spat

verb
  • To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands. 

  • To spawn. Used of shellfish as above. 

  • To quarrel or argue briefly. 

  • To strike with a spattering sound. 

noun
  • A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe. 

  • A brief argument, falling out, quarrel. 

  • A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface. 

  • A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear. 

  • A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car. 

  • An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres. 

  • A light blow with something flat. 

  • The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs. 

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