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swattling

swattling is the present participle and gerund of swattle.

Meaning of swattle

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

Questions about swattling

What is swattling the present participle and gerund of?
Swattling is the present participle and gerund of swattle.

Words near swattling in the dictionary

  1. swatting
  2. swattings
  3. swattle
  4. swattled
  5. swattles
  6. swattling
  7. Swatzell
  8. Swatzells
  9. Swauger
  10. Swaugers
  11. swaver

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swattling (page history and authors); swattle (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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