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swattering

swattering is the present participle and gerund of swatter.

Meaning of swatter

Verb

swatter (third-person singular simple present swatters, present participle swattering, simple past and past participle swattered)

  1. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To spill water about.

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Questions about swattering

What is swattering the present participle and gerund of?
Swattering is the present participle and gerund of swatter.

Words near swattering in the dictionary

  1. Swatow
  2. swats
  3. swatted
  4. swatter
  5. swattered
  6. swattering
  7. swatters
  8. swatting
  9. swattings
  10. swattle
  11. swattled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swattering (page history and authors); swatter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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