Spatting

Having a little salt-water inlet, with a river running into it, he conceived the idea of breeding and raising oysters, but found the climate bad for "spatting," and now buys his tiny young oysters by the ten thousand at the Isle of Rhé, and puts them down in long perforated boxes on his oyster beds. ❋ Bernard H. Becker (N/A)

These impersonalities were as near "spatting" as Mr. and Mrs. Hodges ever got. ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

I was endorsed by Nike for seven years, but they voided my contract (after several warnings) for "spatting" my cleats on game-days. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thorny likes queer leaves and berries, you know, "answered Bab," spatting "down her rough locks. ❋ Various (1868)

So we raced along, behind us a howling, screaming bedlam of wrathful Greeks, Collinsville ahead, and bullets spat-spatting all around us. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pica has thrown up a couple of times and Pixel has taken to hissing and spatting at Coby, first because he smelled bad and now because show much attention is paid to him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I want to see some epic sci fi war with big ass guns and sawing some alien creature with blood spatting all over Cole and afterward him saying something like Yeah! ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Some folk see two Republicans spatting over who gets to call itself the Democratic Nominee." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Still, as one commentor said, a reporter highlighting the normal spatting of a campaign is hardly a swiftboat attacker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some folk see two Republicans spatting over who gets to call itself the Democratic Nominee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So when Clint and Spike were recently spatting it depressed me because their old school name calling seemed to augur bad things for the presidential race. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before long, Shrek and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) are spatting, the Fairy Godmother is blackmailing the king -- and the king's hiring an assassin to take Shrek out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You are spatting about minor points and missing the elephant. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And we're not very good when we're just in the whining business or the spatting business or the putting each other down business. ❋ Unknown (2007)

ALLEN: Well, I think on the issues that republicans care about while some were spatting back and forth, Romney and Giuliani and so forth, what you saw was issues that people care about in the republican primaries such as stopping illegal immigration, cutting taxes for all Americans, protecting the rights of law-abiding citizens to protect their families, strong national defense, securing our borders. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And then the sparks came flying up and the smoke came pouring down and the crackling of flames and spatting of water and banging of engines and hacking of axes and breaking of glass and knocking at doors and the shouting and crying and hurrying and the heat and altogether gave me a dreadful palpitation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And, as Cityrag notes, judging by the pictures from the premiere, these two had likely been spatting all night. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Clinton looked like a little boy crying and arguing, and spitting and spatting. ❋ Unknown (2006)