splat

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Snowballs arrive, splat, at my feet when I re-leave with camera.

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  1. noun A slat of wood, as one in the middle of a chair back.
  2. noun A smacking or splashing noise.
  3. adverb With a smacking or splashing noise: landed splat on the floor.

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  • On Sunday, that cats went into official wilt-splat mode, generally reserved for mid to late summer.
  • It struck with a wet splat, almost as if it were striking flesh. —  Dozois, Gardner ; Strahan, Jonathan - SSC - The New Space Opera (v1.0)
  • Clifford struck the wall with a loud splat, then crumpled to the ground in a dead faint. —  Garwood, Julie - The Gift
  • Snowballs arrive, splat, at my feet when I re-leave with camera. —  eggbeater
  • "A broadly played clown show full of lowbrow antics, Bong's big splat is itself a sort of monster," suggests —  GreenCine Daily
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  1. Perhaps from Middle English splatten, to split open, perhaps from Medieval Latin splattāre, of Low German origin.
  2. Imitative.

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  1. Early modern English splette; from Middle English splatten; a secondary form of split (?).
 

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