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swattle

swattle verb: to splutter; to guzzle.

Verb

swattle (third-person singular simple present swattles, present participle swattling, simple past and past participle swattled)

  1. (Northern, UK, dialectal) To splutter; to guzzle.
  2. (UK, transitive) To fritter away.
    Synonyms:
    swatter

Synonyms of swattle

Forms of swattle

third-person singular presentswattles
present participleswattling
past participleswattled
pastswattled

Questions about swattle

What does swattle mean?
Swattle means to splutter; to guzzle.
What part of speech is swattle?
Swattle is a verb.
What is the past tense of swattle?
The past tense of swattle is swattled.

Words near swattle in the dictionary

  1. swattered
  2. swattering
  3. swatters
  4. swatting
  5. swattings
  6. swattle
  7. swattled
  8. swattles
  9. swattling
  10. Swatzell
  11. Swatzells

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