spat

1. To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
2. To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth; specifically, to rain or snow slightly.

   a hot pan spitting droplets of fat

3. To utter (something) violently.
4. (hip-hop) To rap, to utter.
5. To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.

1. The spawn of shellfish, especially oysters and similar molluscs.
2. A juvenile shellfish which has attached to a hard surface.

verb

To spawn. Used of shellfish as above.

1. (often in the plural) A covering or decorative covering worn over a shoe.
2. A piece of bodywork that covers the upper portions of the rear tyres of a car.

1. A brief argument, falling out, quarrel.

   get into a trivial spat over punctuality

verb

To quarrel or argue briefly.

noun

A light blow with something flat.

1. To strike with a spattering sound.
2. To slap, as with the open hand; to clap together, as the hands.

noun

An obsolete unit of distance in astronomy (symbol S), equal to one billion kilometres.