Word of the Day: Spat

spat: briga, discussão sem importância, palmada, brigar, disputar à toa, dar palmada /pára-lama da roda do avião/ desova de ostra, desovar, depositar ovas (pretérito de “spit = cuspir)

Synonyms: altercation, bicker, brawl, contretemps, controversy,  disagreement, dispute, falling-out, fight,  kickup,misunderstanding, quarrel,  row, scrap, set-to, spat, squabble

... After a verbal spat over Brown’s nude centerfold in Cosmopolitan, the contenders are going head to head…(Newsweek, October 12, 2011)

“The EU countries are happy lovers doing nothing more than having a little spat.” (Newsweek,  October 11, 2011)