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Definition: Swatter |
SwatterNoun1. An implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects. Verb1. Splash and flutter about in or as if in water; "She swattered about in the pool". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A fire suppression tool used in direct attack for beating out flames along a fire edge. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A device for killing insects usu. consisting of a flat piece of perforated rubber or plastic or fine-meshed wire netting attached to a handle - called also flyswatter. . . WEBIN 66 3-. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SwatterSynonyms: flyswat (n), flyswatter (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wouldn't a fly swatter be easier (The Karate Kid; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bobby Bumps' Fly Swatter (1916) Sweedie the Swatter (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Woodrow Wilson ready to swat a fly on Uncle Sam's head with "currency bill" fly swatter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
Expressions using "swatter": fire swatter ♦ fly swatter. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "swatter": fly-swatter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
electric fly swatter | 40 |
fly swatter | 37 |
swatter | 37 |
electronic fly swatter | 14 |
fishing fly swatter | 9 |
fly promotional swatter | 5 |
bug electronic swatter | 4 |
mosquito swatter | 3 |
electronic mosquito swatter | 3 |
bug swatter | 2 |
art clip fly swatter | 2 |
electric bug swatter | 2 |
fly gun swatter | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "swatter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | бухалка (bat, indian club, paddle). (various references) | |
Danish | branddasker (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper). (various references) | |
Dutch | vuurzweep (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper). (various references) | |
Farsi | مگس کش , ضربت سخت زننده . (various references) | |
Finnish | kärpäslätkä (fly-flap), kärpäsläiskä (fly-flap), hosa (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper). (various references) | |
French | tapette mouches, tapette, batte feu (fire swatter). (various references) | |
German | Fliegenklatsche (fly flap, fly-swat). (various references) | |
Greek | κλάρα κατασβέσεως πυρκαϊάς (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper), κτυπών (buffeter, clacker, clatterer, slogger, smiter, striker, swiper), χτυπών (smiter, striker, swiper). (various references) | |
Hungarian | légycsapó (flapper, fly-swatter, whisk). (various references) | |
Italian | battifuoco (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper), ammazzamosche (fly flap). (various references) | |
Manx | bwoailleyder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attersway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | instrumento improvisado para combate ao fogo rasteiro (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper), batedouro mata-moscas (fly swatter), batedor (bat, batsman, beater, coiner, escort, feeler, knocker, picker, scutch, stamper, thrasher, tracker, walloper). (various references) | |
Russian | хлопушка для мух. (various references) | |
Spanish | palmeta matamoscas, matafuego (fire beater, fire broom, fire flail, fire swatter, fireflapper). (various references) | |
Swedish | ruska (bunch of twigs, shake, tuft). (various references) | |
Turkish | sineklik (flapper, flyswatter, swat, whisk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хлопавка для мух. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swatter": swatters. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "swatter": flyswatter. (additional references) | |
Words containing "swatter": flyswatters. (additional references) | |
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"Swatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmwater, statter, swaiter, swatir, swattel, swetter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: rawest, stater, taster, taters, tawers, tetras, treats, waster, waters, watter. | |
-2 letters: aster, rates, resaw, sawer, sewar, stare, start, state, straw, strew, sware, swart, swear, sweat, tares, tarts, taste, tater, tates, tawer, tawse, tears, teats, testa, tetra, treat, trets, trews, twaes, wares, warts, waste, water, watts, wears, wrest. | |
-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, awes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-s-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: swatters, wartiest. | |
+2 letters: cutwaters, saltwater, strawiest, tawdriest, terawatts, thwarters, trawlnets, wateriest, wrathiest. | |
+3 letters: bathwaters, downstater, flyswatter, meltwaters, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweetheart, tailwaters, thwartwise, tidewaters, wastewater, waterspout, wattmeters. | |
+4 letters: downstaters, flyswatters, sweatshirts, sweethearts, wastewaters, watchtowers, watercrafts, waterfronts, waterspouts, waterthrush, wattlebirds, weathercast, wentletraps, wildcatters. | |
+5 letters: airworthiest, latticeworks, stalwartness, streetwalker, thitherwards, weathercasts, whitethroats, wristwatches. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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