swatter

A noun referring to a tool consisting of a flat mesh or plastic head attached to a long handle, used for killing insects.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un outil composé d'une tête plate en maille ou en plastique fixée à un long manche, utilisé pour tuer les insectes notamment les mouches.

1. Insect-killing tool A2 formal

   A device with a flat, often mesh or plastic head attached to a long handle, used to kill flies and other insects.

   • He grabbed the fly swatter to kill the mosquito.
   • She keeps a swatter in the kitchen for summer bugs.
   • The plastic swatter is easy to clean after use.

   🇫🇷tapette à mouches

   Synonymes: flyswatter

• swatters plural form
• swatters' possessive plural form
• swatter's possessive singular form

An obsolete verb meaning to splash or scatter about, or to wander aimlessly; no longer in common use.

• 🇫🇷Verbe désuet signifiant éclabousser ou disperser, ou errer sans but ; n'est plus utilisé dans le langage courant.

1. Splash and flutter C1 informal

   To splash and flutter about in or as if in water, often with a flapping or thrashing motion.

   • The duck swattered in the pond, sending ripples across the surface.
   • Children swattered happily in the shallow end of the pool.
   • The fish swattered on the deck after being caught.

   🇫🇷Barboter en s'ébattant

   Synonymes: flailfloundersplashthrash

• swattered past participle
• swattered past simple
• swattering present participle
• swatters third person singular