swatting
1
3.4
- noun
- /ˈswɑːtɪŋ/
:
dar palmaditas a
- The children spent the afternoon swatting at the annoying flies buzzing around their picnic.
- swatting flies
- swatting mosquitoes
Examples
-
The Wooleys and the Grands seemed to be running around their lawn swatting flies.
Fiction book (1994) -
Parents stood around laughing, teachers sat cross-legged swatting gnats, and neighbors looked yearningly at the games, wishing they were children again.
Fiction book (1990) -
There is something to be said for 'swatting' the ball.
Blog text (3) -
Use the swatting motion.
-
Following that, I lived with two gay men who killed every spider we found, and now I live with R, whose fly-swatting count is somewhere around 30.
Blog text (21) -
After discovering a mosquito in his room, he quickly resorted to swatting it with a rolled-up magazine.
-
To keep the backyard comfortable, she always had a hand swatter ready for swatting any pesky insects.
Synonyms
1
1.0
An act of striking something with force, often with a hand or object
1
4.8
Hitting someone or something very hard, often with a fist
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swatting comes from the quick verb swat, a sound word that copies the sharp hit you make. That's why swatting means hitting insects quickly, like with a flyswatter.